Dakar, 29th and 30th of November 2010
This symposium is organized by the working group on digital environments in African universities, AFRICAMPUS: MICA- GRESIC University of Bordeaux , Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar; Omar Bongo University of Libreville; University of Kara(Togo); the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), the Institute of Communication Sciences of CNRS
The issues
By reforming the curriculum and qualification process for LMD (Bachelor’s, (...)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
SYMPOSIUM ORGANISED by EUTIC: INTERDISCIPLINARY
NETWORK ON THE CHALLENGES AND USES OF ICT, coordinated by the
MICA-GRESIC, University of Bordeaux 3.
DATES: 25th and 26th November 2010, in Dakar
ORGANISATION OF EUTIC 2010: UCAD (Professor Claude LISHOU)
OBJECTIVES OF THE SYMPOSIUM:
International cooperation on Information and Communication Technologies in our society aims to unite all the forces at work to (...)
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