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The Ghana National Commission for UNESCO and   the Planning Committee of IYL, 2015 has postponed the Africa Regional Conference and Exhibition on ‘Harnessing Light and Light-based Technologies for   Africa’s Development’ to 14th – 16th September, 2015 at the Accra International Conference Centre, Ghana.

The Conference and Exhibition which was originally scheduled for 26th – 28th May 2015 had to be rescheduled mainly due to the many requests received from institutions, agencies and the general public to allow adequate time to prepare and showcase in the Exhibition the extent to which Ghana has come in the area of Light and Light-Based Technologies.

The Conference and Exhibition aims among others at creating  awareness on the potential of Light and Light-Based Technologies in solving many of the challenges facing the African Continent in the field of Education, Energy, Communications, Agriculture and Health.

The Event will also promote interaction and dialogue among academics, industries and professionals in using optics and photonics concepts in tapping developmental strategies for communities with the view to enabling policy-makers appreciate the relevance for the support of science for economic advancement. It would further attract young minds and innovators to come out with new ideas and inventions in the application of Light-Based Technologies for the benefit of the Continent.