The BEANISH initiative (Building Europe Africa collaborative Network for applying IST in Health care sector) seeks to support the application and sharing of IST application development in the African health-care sector. In order to do so, the initiative will involve various institutional actors (government, universities, private sector and NGOs) to strengthen and extend an existing Europe-Africa collaborative R&D network, namely HISP (Health Information Systems Programme). This is intended to strengthen cooperation, learning and innovation on both continents.

The initiative is formally a WITFOR (World Information Technology Forum) project, proposed by EU-African partners and IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing).

[edit] External links

• BEANISH Home Page

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