Tina James, Icteum Consulting South Africa

Work undertaken to date has drawn on her wide range of expertise in the management of multidisciplinary projects, strategic planning, programme design, and facilitation of participative processes. Examples include an Africa-wide initiative on ICT policy advocacy; development of a strategy for the increased participation of women in high-level ICTs in South Africa; the development of an ICT for Development programme for the EU-ACP countries; a study on investment opportunities in the ICT sector in East Africa; preparatory papers on The African Learning Network for the UN Economic Commission for Africa; several evaluation studies on the use of ICTs in education and a study on the diffusion and uptake of ICTs in eight industry sectors in South Africa. She led a study for the South African Presidential National Commission on the use of ICT for SMMEs, and on the IT sector in South Africa for the President’s Office. As Senior Programme Officer and Senior Advisor to the Canadian International Development Research Centre's Acacia (1997 – 2001) Programme, which addressed the use of ICTs by disadvantaged, rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa, she was responsible for project development and implementation as well as support for planning activities.She is also an associate lecturer of the University of the Witwatersrand’s LINK Centre in Johannesburg on gender and ICTs.
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