Monday, December 23, 2024
eLearning Africa platinum sponsor Wyse Technology has now been acquired by Dell Inc thus bringing two of the world’s leaders in desktop virtualisation and cloud computing under one roof. What will the new-look company offer its customers and partners?
Ministers of Education and ICT from across Africa have called for a rethinking of the financing strategies adopted by their higher education institutions if the United Nations Millennium Developmental Goals are to be attained by 2015. These are the findings of eLearning Africa’s Fifth Ministerial Round Table on Education and Sustainable Financing in Africa.
Les ministres africains en charge de l’Education et des TIC ont appelé à repenser les stratégies de financement adoptées par leurs institutions d’éducation supérieure afin d’atteindre les Objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement des Nations unies d’ici à 2015. Bilan de la Cinquième Table Ronde Ministérielle sur l’éducation et le financement durable en Afrique.
First place: “ICT and eLearning for all”
The link between education, economic growth and security will be the subject of discussion in a session at a major new business conference in Africa.
In the absence of formal educational infrastructure, mobile technology will be instrumental in transforming education in under-resourced areas, reveals a new study conducted by the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA). Over 1200 youths from Ghana, India, Morocco and Uganda were polled, and in spite of the geographical divide, there were many striking parallels in how they interact with mobile technology.
Terry Morris, a UK-based photographer, attended this year’s eLearning Africa conference in Cotonou. The eLearning Africa News Portal is proud to exhibit some of his impressions of the conference and Benin.
Participants of eLearning Africa 2012 in Cotonou will have noticed enthusiastic groups of children bearing cameras and photographing all around them. These young paparazzi were taking part in an innovative digital photo workshop as part of the conference activities.
Max Ahouèkè, Benin’s Minister of Communication and Information and Communication Technologies, has closed the annual eLearning Africa conference which was held in Cotonou from May 23rd – 25th. Ahouèkè praised those gathered for the progress that has been achieved in implementing ICT-enhanced educational practices across Africa. He said, “More and more students now have access to world-class learning resources without the barriers of distance […]
Growing up in her native Kenya, Juliana Rotich was the lonely, young “geek” with oversized glasses at school. Today she is a highly successful tech entrepreneur who is a co-founder and Executive Director of Ushahidi, a homegrown non-profit tech company that has taken the world by storm. She spoke to Jocelyne Sambira of Africa Renewal Online about how increasing the number of female techs […]
