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DTSTAMP:2008-03-07 07:23:53.679394
CREATED:2008-03-07 07:23:53.457196
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SUMMARY:1st Pan African Competitiveness Forum
DTSTART:2008-04-14
DTEND:2008-04-17
DESCRIPTION:&lt;p&gt;The Pan African Competitiveness Forum (PACF) is a new continent-wide competence and action centre for innovation and cluster based competitiveness approaches to national and regional economic development in Africa.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-align: justify&quot; class=&quot;MsoBodyText3&quot;&gt;African Union (AU) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) will in collaboration with The Competitiveness Institute host the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pacf2008.com/index_files/PACFwebsite.htm&quot;&gt;1st Pan African Competitiveness Forum&lt;/a&gt; on 14-16 April 2008 in Addis Ababa. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Forum will bring together 200 African stakeholders&amp;nbsp; involved in innovation and cluster based competitiveness initiative .&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The overall objective of PACF is to enable stakeholders involved in innovation and cluster based competitiveness initiatives to respond more effectively to the unique challenges and opportunities that Africa is facing in global competition. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 1st Pan African Competitiveness Forum will seek to mark the beginning of learning, and ideas and experience sharing on competitiveness in Africa - between African countries and their global partners. &lt;/p&gt;
LOCATION:Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ETH)
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