Tina James
Synthesis of the Pan African Study
Tina
James is an independent consultant with more than 18 years'
experience in various aspects of ICTs in Africa, but particularly in
underdeveloped areas. 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 at
community and corporate level, all of which is based on an in-depth
understanding of ICT-related activities in the region.
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Tina James, a leading
consultant on ICTs in Africa, from government and industry to the community
level.
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Tina has led several large, multidisciplinary projects in
both the ICT and environmental management arenas. These include the
development of the Information Policy Handbook for Southern Africa
(2001); baseline studies for the CIDA-supported South African IT
Industry Strategy; 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 recently completed study on the diffusion and
uptake of ICTs in eight industry sectors in South Africa. Additional
expertise includes research on gender and ICTs, community telecentres,
universal access, and the use of ICTs to support entrepreneurs in developing
countries.
As Senior Advisor to the IDRC's
Acacia Programme, which addresses 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. Tina was appointed by the South African Department
of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology to serve on the ICT working group
for the national Foresight initiative, which developed a technology strategy
for ICTs. Leading out of this work, she is presently the lead consultant
developing technology roadmaps for the ICT industry in South Africa.
She served a
two-year term on the ECA's African Technical Advisory Committee for the
African Information Society Initiative (AISI). She has operated as an
independent consultant since 1997, prior to which she was in various ICT-related
management positions at the South African Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research (CSIR). She is also an associate of the University of
the Witwatersrand’s LINK Centre, where she lectures on Gender and ICTs.
Tina James Consulting
Strategy and Project
Development Services
P
O Box 72267 Lynnwood Ridge 0040 South Africa
Tel/Fax: +27 12 361-4334 Cell: 27 (0) 82 460-7915
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