BEANISH

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).