The speakers of the panel on Information and Communication Technology have raised key issues that affect both growth and security.  The importance of updated and safe databases; understanding the power of ICT from economic and educative perspectives and more importantly, the reach ICTs have in continents such as Africa and how the human element  – the core factor of security – remains the most important factor in a technology filled world.

It is the interdependence of technology, awareness, knowledge that defines ICT and its power and makes it a very powerful tool, especially in Africa, where such technology is not used for entertainment purposes but as means for dissemination of information and education.