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The 1st AMDIN Biennial Conference and General Meeting - Conference Proceedings

29 August 2007

Midrand, South Africa

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The African Management Development Institutes’ Network (AMDIN) held its Conference and inaugural Biennial General Members’ meeting (BGM) at the Development Bank of Southern Africa, Midrand in South Africa from the 29 to 31 August 2007. The conference met as a network of management development institutes (MDIs) and schools of administration and government to deliberate on the theme “MDIs: Developing Public Sector Capacity for Africa’s 21^st Century Needs”. The conference was supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat, IBM and the Development Bank of Africa (DBSA). The conference proceedings are presented below.

29 August 2007

PRE-CONFERENCE DAY

IBM sponsored and provided training for two ICT workshops to delegates on the pre-conference day. These presentations concerned project and programme management as well as e-learning strategies offered by IBM.

The Heads of MDIs also held a forum in the afternoon with two presentations initiating these discussions. Dr Roland Msiska from the Southern Africa Capacity Initiative of the UNDP highlighted the need for MDIs to become innovative and learning organisations. Mr Modise Makhetha from the Meraka Institute presented the positive returns to MDIs opting to use Open Source Software in their activities. The conclusion from the deliberations during this discourse was that there was need for more constructive engagement to help MDIs grapple with challenges that they face as had been illustrated with the Singapore Civil Service College engagement with African MDIs.

The outgoing AMDIN Council held the 4^th meeting of the AMDIN Executive Council. It deliberated matters pertaining to the AMDIM programme and activities for 2007/08 as well as the logistical details pertaining to the preparation and programme for the AMDIN conference. This was the last meeting for the 2005 – 2007 Council and a new Council was elected at the BGM.

On the evening of the pre-conference day IBM hosted a networking dinner for the Heads of Institutions on the evening of this pre-conference day. Mr Alf Kale, the IBM Business Development Executive stressed the IBM commitment to the goals of NEPAD as well as IBM availability to interact with MDIs at the level of individual institutes.

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