Zambia’s capital will host a gathering of some of Africa’s top educational decision-makers on May 26th at eLearning Africa.The 5th eLearning Africa conference 2010 will bring together ministers and senior officials from nine African countries.The largest pan-African conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for development, education and training will be held from May 26th – 28th in Lusaka.
The Round Table, entitled “Leading for change in ICTs in education”, will see Ministers and senior policy advisers from Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Equatorial Guinea and Zambia discuss how ICTs can foster capacity development in African education systems. Zambia’s Minister of Education, the Honourable Ms Dora Siliya, will open the event.
Obstacles to Achieving Inclusive Education
African governments often face similar problems with the implementation of ICT and education programmes at a local level. Obstacles can include the bureaucratic structures of institutions, scarce resources and a lack of leadership strategies to harness the opportunities brought by ICT.
The high-level Round Table will enhance inter-African Ministerial collaboration on national, sub-regional and continental programmes on ICT enhanced education. eLearning is seen as one of the most important development accelerators by the majority of African administrations. National ICT strategies therefore, focus on issues such as access to ICTs, equipping institutions with the most appropriate software and hardware, as well as curricula development, fostering digital literacy and the provision of initial teacher training.
Effective Partnerships with the Private Sector
The politicians, who will be joined by representatives from major development agencies, will discuss how the private sector and development partners can support national educational reform programmes, with a focus on the take-up of relevant education technologies in Africa. The deliverables from the Round Table will include policy briefs and insights as well as a comprehensive communiqué.
Hosts of the Round Table are the Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI), the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) and International Conferences, Workshops and Exhibitions GmbH (ICWE). Microsoft is the event’s sponsor.
The eLearning Africa Conference
eLearning Africa is the largest pan-African conference on ICTs for education and training. It is a key networking event for education professionals, investors and providers of education and training in Africa.
More than 1500 delegates from around the world are expected at this year’s eLearning Africa. The Conference is held in English and French. It will be opened by the President of the Republic of Zambia, His Excellency Rupiah Bwezani Banda.
Zambia is not in a position to host anything!
It is a place that encroaches on human dignity and should be shunned by the international community for violation of human rights.
At least they are coming to spend their money in Lusaka. This is good news for shops, malls and hotels/lodges.
unfortunately our government will report a negative even after this conference. Wait and watch.
#1 Mwandi mune, let’s understand why this is a good thing – for our poorly paid civil servants this will be an opportunity to make tuma allowances. As “workshops” go, this is quite a whopper and am pretty sure people are salivating just for a chance to sit in on it.
Good start as that beings people to our beloved country to speed like what happen here in Cuba
Until we put eduction as a priority this country will not go anywhere, every one the blog by now knows that am a PF kaponya but am praying that the Pact holds and HH becomes our candidate. We lagging behind as a nation because since independence we’ve been led by uneducated bigots( or with outdated degrees) with no idea of how to run a country. I was looking at the new line up of ministers in UK, i was surprised almost every one of them is Oxibridge educated including their young advisors and assistants whom they’ve taken under their wings for training and exposure. Now contrast that to our situation where we’re busy exhuming dead woods such as William Banda .
negativity ozzing from every orrifice, thats the ungreatfull arm chair critc. most of you have been educated using meger GRZ resources and have given nothing back to the nation, then when you are with the whites all you do is shoot down our third world developing zambia. Shame on you.
Its great & good news that Zambia will be hosting the 5th e-Learning Africa conference in about 2 weeks time from now. I have a heart for e-Learning advancement not only for Zambia but for the entire African continent.How can Zambian experts in this field (& currently living abroad) possibly participate in this initiative? Its a pity this announcement has come late otherwise I would have loved to fly to Zambia & attend it if its open to all.
Good news!But does our goverment know anything on e-learning????