Partners

British Foreign and Commonwealth Office: The Foreign & Commonwealth office is responsible for promoting British interests overseas. It is Britain’s diplomatic service and  represents the United Kingdom's government overseas. Their work focuses on promoting and protecting Britain’s interests abroad.  The FCO's global network of offices spreads across more than 160 countries

Commonwealth Secretariat: The Commonwealth Secretariat is the civil service of the Commonwealth – an equal association of 53countries. This institution executes plans agreed by Commonwealth Heads of Government. IT's work focuses on  technical assistance, advisory services and policy development.

COMNET-IT: The Commonwealth Network of Information Technology for Development is an independent international foundation created to promote collaboration and technology transfer between Commonwealth member states on Information and Communication Technology policy. The organization facilitates the brokering and funding of national ICT-related projects and engages in capacity building through policy and training workshops.

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: - The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) helps the UK build on its strengths and develop new capabilities that will enable everyone to exploit today's changes fully. BIS creates the policy critical to grow the economy, from higher education, skills and science to innovation, enterprise and business. BIS is also giving Real Help Now for people and businesses affected by the recession, it also works to put in place the conditions for business success, with a strategy to help businesses create the jobs of the future as the economy begins to grow.

DiploFoundation: DiploFoundation is a non-profit organisation based in Malta, with offices in Geneva and Belgrade. In June 2006,    Diplo was granted Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Diplo also plays an important role in a number of global networks, including the Global Knowledge Partnership, the International Forum on Diplomatic Training and the European Diplomatic Training Initiative.

Industrie Canada: Industry Canada's mission is to foster a growing, competitive, knowledge-based Canadianeconomy. The Department works with Canadians throughout the economy and in all parts of the country to improve conditions for investment, improve Canada's innovation performance, increase Canada's share of global trade and build a fair, efficient and competitive marketplace. Its program areas include developing industry and technology capability, fostering scientific research, setting telecommunications policy, promoting investment and trade, promoting tourism and small business development, and setting rules and services that support the effective operation of the marketplace.

KICTANet The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi stakeholder network of members from civil society groups, private and public sectrs, development partners and media. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the governments mission to enable Kenyans to gain maximum benefit from the opportunity offered by ICTs.. Kictanet  looks to become the focal point for building multi-stakeholder consensus on ICT Policy, Strategy and Initiatives. The ultimate objective is to catalyse reform and development in the ICT sector by enhancing collaboration amongst the stakeholders.

Nominet - Nominet is the Internet registry for .uk domain names. It operates at the heart of e-commerce in the UK, running one of the world's largest Internet registries and managing over seven million domain names. NOMINET maintains the register of .uk domain names and runs the technology which locates a computer on the Internet hosting the web site or email system you're looking for when you type in a web address or send an email to an address that ends in .uk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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