Objective HIV/AIDS pandemic together with the generally poor health status in Africa have emphasized the need for appropriate IST in health care for strengthening various activities such as knowledge exchange between health care managers, providers and the community, optimal allocation of resources and monitoring the roll out of the HIV/AIDS programmes.Europe has a strong research base in the e-health and there can be mutual benefits arising through co-operation between Europe and Africa. However, given the contextual differences, for example related to infrastructure, economy, and culture, European solutions and know-how need to be sensitively reworked and appropriately translated to the African context. Furthermore, best practices, learning and workable ISTs need to be shared and further developed across African countries within a regional framework.The BEANISH initiative which is formally a WITFOR (World Information Technology Forum) project, proposed by EU-African partners and IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) builds upon an existing global RandD network called HISP (Health Information Systems Program). This initiative seeks to involve various institutional actors (government, universities, private sector and NGOs) to strengthen and extend an existing 'Europe-Africa' collaborative network to support the application and sharing of IST application development so as to support cooperation, learning and innovation in mutually beneficial ways. The WITFOR 2005 meeting will serve as an important milestone in the BEANISH project.The project focus is on organization of the WITFOR conference; strengthening of the HISP network by conducting case studies and sharing of best practices; establishing capacity building to enable sharing open source software development; and supporting e-training. The BEANISH project will help create the basis for developing an international cooperation to apply for EU Framework 6 program related to IST applications. Fields of science medical and health scienceshealth scienceshealth care serviceseHealthsocial sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil societynongovernmental organizationsnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware developmentmedical and health scienceshealth sciencesinfectious diseasesRNA virusesHIVnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2004-2.3.6.2 - To prepare for future international co-operation in IST Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme SSA - Specific Support Action Coordinator UNIVERSITETET I OSLO EU contribution No data Address PROBLEMVEIEN 5-7 0316 OSLO Norway See on map Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY Ethiopia EU contribution No data Address -- ADDIS ABABA See on map Total cost No data COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI Malawi EU contribution No data Address CHICHIRI, 3 BLANTYRE See on map Total cost No data EDUARDAO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF SCIENCE, HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROGRAMME MOZAMBIQUE Mozambique EU contribution No data Address -- MAPUTO, See on map Total cost No data INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING Austria EU contribution No data Address HOFSTRASSE 3 2361 LAXENBURG See on map Total cost No data MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Botswana EU contribution No data Address PRIVATE BAG 00414 GABORONE See on map Total cost No data UNIVERISTY OF DAR-ES-SALAAM Tanzania EU contribution No data Address UNIVERSITY DAR-ES -SALAAM See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE South Africa EU contribution No data Address MODDERDAMM ROAD 7535 BELLVILLE See on map Total cost No data
