The UN Economic Commission for Africa launched the African Regional Network of the UN Global Alliance for ICTs and Development on 23 March 2007 on the sidelines of the African Civil Society Forum.

During the launching ceremony Ms Aida Opoku-Mensah, director of the ICT, Science and Technology Division at ECA stressed that the newly set up African Regional Network of the UN Global Alliance for ICTs and Development will help in bringing together all stakeholders active in Information and Knowledge Economy to reflect on strategies to ensure the effective implementation of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) plan of action as well as the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals