IST 2013 Africa was held on 29 - 31 May, Nairobi, Kenya and KENET was commended for effectively mobilizing the Kenyan academic and research community, for providing excellent Internet services and being a leading NREN in Africa and the developing world!The conference had many delegates from Europe (mostly researchers and a team from RENATER, the French NREN) and from many other Africa countries, including Senegal and Tunisia.

The Kenyan senior academic leadership roundtable  of DVCs and Deans was a first and a success for IST Africa and so were meetings with those preparing the research frameworks for 2014-2020 in the EU. All went very well and we had many papers from Kenya and our university community. It really strengthened our academic community.

The workshop was hosted by the Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Higher Education Science and Technology, and Supported by the European Commission (EC) and African Union Commission (AUC), IST-Africa 2013 (29 - 31 May) was the eighth in an annual series of Ministerial Level Technology Research Conferences.

Focused on Information Society and ICT Policy Dialogues, International Development and Research Cooperation and Community Building, each conference brings together senior representatives of leading public, private, education and research organisations from 50 countries to discuss policy, share insight and identify collaboration opportunities.

The goals of the IST-Africa Conference Series are to :-

• Support Development of the Information Society and Knowledge Economy in Africa
• Promote International Research and Development Cooperation and Coordination
• Showcase African Research and Innovation Capacity
• Stimulate exploitation of research results by the public and private sectors