The Africa4All Project has commenced activities with co-funding under the ACP-ICT Call. The Africa4all initiative will provide a specific ICT solution that will involve both Parliaments and the general public, aiming to create a new relationship between MPs and the citizens with the Parliaments of Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, Tanzania and Uganda. Africa4All will leverage Gov2DemOSS, an open source platform that has been developed by Gov2U and customised in the Demos@work project.

The overall objective of the Africa4All project is to support the goals of the @CP-ICT Programme as they relate to helping ACP governments build sustainable capacity to adapt and implement international good practice in leveraging ICT in Parliaments of ACP States. The platform will be customised during the project in the context of the participating Parliaments.

The specific objectives of Africa4All are:

- To introduce and test an innovative eParliament framework leveraging Web 2.0 technologies as a pilot in Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda and Lesotho

- To educate MPs, Parliamentary ICT staff and citizens to leverage technology to support collaboration and active engagement in decision making processes in society

- To identify the challenges and barriers from the introduction of ICT in everyday functioning of Parliaments

- To leverage project results, experiences and lessons learnt from the five trials to promote wider ICT adoption in ACP State Parliaments, but with a particular focus during the project duration on engagement with other East African and Southern African countries

- To contribute to the bridging the digital divide, enhancing the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as key enablers for poverty reduction

The Consortium consists of Gov2u (Co-ordinator), a Greek NGO specialising in the development and promotion of open-source eParliament and related collaborative solutions, and the Parliaments of Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda and Lesotho.

For more information, please visit www.africa4all-project.eu