The African Virtual University (AVU) in collaboration with the Faculty of Science and Technology of Education and Training (FASTEF) of UCAD organized the training of 33 teachers in the integration of Information Communication and Technologies ( ICT) in science and math.
The training which is taking place at the Resource Centre of FASTEF includes in its first phase, building basic skills with a 10-day on-site training , said the person in charge of the training, Mamadi Biaye, in order to (...)
The main objective of this book is to better understand the organizational strategies that are likely to promote the integration of ICT in schools to help improve the quality of education.
Through a multi-case study conducted in eight ICT pilot schools in secondary education in Cameroon and using a methodological approach based primarily on content analysis, different types of data were analyzed, allowing the identification of various integration strategies of ICT at both the (...)
Teachers from Saharan Africa will gather in Mombasa in Kenya this week for the 2010 edition of Microsoft Pan African Innovative Education Forum (IEF).
A delegation of thirteen participants including four innovative teachers from Mauritius including one from Rodrigues, three from Madagascar and also three innovative teachers of Seychelles. This year Sir Abdool Razack Mohammed State Secondary School has been awarded the status of innovative facility in Mauritius, also being among the (...)
Last week, the Ministry of Education, Mr Boubekeur Benbouzid, leveraging one of his field trips, said that his department will have its own provider to serve as "major retailer" of connection Internet.
In fact, the Department of Education will neither adopt a new institution dedicated to ICT, nor will become a "super client" of Algeria Telecom.
The "provider" in question has existed since 2005, as a response plan that will eventually lead to the establishment of the National Center for (...)
NAIROBI, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) — Kenya will host an ICT conference next month to discuss ways of further catalyzing East Africa’s ICT industry following the landing of undersea fiber cables on the country’s coastal city of Mombasa.
The two-day AITEC East Africa ICT conference which will bring together computing and communications professionals from the region convene in Nairobi for the first AITEC East Africa ICT will establish the best practices for a robust ICT sector in the region. "Now that (...)
The technological jewel is the fruit of the partnership between the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) and the University of Ngaoundere (UA). It took 8 years for this project to get materialized since it goes back to 2002, on the occasion of the signing of an agreement between the Director of the AUF for the Central Africa and Great Lak region and the rector of the University of Ngaoundere. Teachers had the ambition at the time to create a space for discussions between the (...)
Dakar, 23 August (APS) - The Senegalese minister responsible for Information Communication and Technology (ICT), Fatou Ndiaye Diop Blondin, on Monday invited Africans to prepare themselves to "speak with one voice" during the world conference on Internet governance, in September in Vilnius (Lithuania).
The 3rd edition of the West African Forum on Internet Governance (IGF) opened in Dakar in the presence of some sixty representatives of civil society, agencies and ministries of ICT, from the (...)
Dakar, 23 August (APS) - About sixty experts from Africa began on Monday in Dakar, discussions on public policies and sharing of experiences on Internet governance, to adopt a common position in the World Conference scheduled for September in Vilnius, Lithuania, reported the Senegale News Agency (APS).
Organised for the third consecutive year in Dakar, the event is part of the West African Forum on Internet Governance and includes representatives of civil society, public agencies and (...)