Sunday, August 26, 2007

Welcome to the Official IODA 2008 Blog

From the IODA 2008 Conference Planning Committee, Accra, Ghana

Greetings, dear OD friends
Akwaaba, Welcome

I am sure you are still savouring the sights, sounds, learning & knowledge sharing experiences and, of course, the pleasure of the company of the many OD faithfuls - who trooped to Sun Peaks, British Columbia, Canada to be a part of the IODA 2007 event.

As you settle down into your post conference mode, the Host Country Organising Committee for IODA 2008 slated for July 27-31, 2008 in Accra Ghana would like to once again follow up on the invitation extended to you all by the Ghana delegation last Friday night, August 24, 2007.

Our special IODA2008 conference website -
http://www.odghana.org/ - will be fully alive with news, information on and about the conference as well as everything that you need to know about our wonderful country, Ghana, as you make your preparations to come in July 2008.

Whilst members of the HCOC are available via email (details would be available on the "Contact Us" pages of the website, our fully manned Conference Secretariat would be formally opened in October 2008 complete with telephone & fax contacts in addition to email communication

We are happy to also invite you to join us to share your thoughts about and in the theme for this conference, ahead of the event. As you recall from last Friday, the theme for the IODA2008Ghana conference is "Growing Together in Partnership" .

Consequently, dear colleagues, we have also created this special IODA2008 blog to enable all of us have and utilise a common discussion platform for contributions and suggestions in the run-up to the conference in July 2008.

We trust that you will be a part of the process of "The making of IODA2008" all aimed at making IODA2008 a very memorable one for all of us.

Welcome once again,
lets hear from you!!
many thanks and the warmest of regards

The HCOC,
IODA2008 Accra Ghana