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Wednesday 2 June 2010
Given increasing popularity of the Internet social networking including blog, wiki, as new tools, media and platforms based on Web2.0 application, UNESCO took an initiative to organize a High Level Debate on Social Networking at WSIS forum 2010 on 11 May 2010 in Geneva, which has triggered lively and fruitful discussions on political and social implications of social networking for knowledge societies.
Given the increasing popularity of new online tools based on Web 2.0 applications, UNESCO (...)
Wednesday 2 June 2010
To encourage teachers to innovate in how they teach courses, Microsoft has just prized four teachers.The awards winners were singled out in the development of digital educational content.
The American company Microsoft has awarded four winners, with teachers of Senegal for their research on innovation in education, through Information Communication and Technology (ICT). According to the program manager, Samba Guissé, the contest named Microsoft Innovative Teachers Forum 2010, aims to (...)
Monday 31 May 2010
BACKGROUND
In Africa, the level of interest in using technology solutions to address critical development challenges is high. At the same time, there is an essential need to accelerate the penetration and application of technology on the continent, particularly at the public sector level.
Feedback received from various government leaders and international financial institutions on the continent clearly shows that the best way to achieve this objective is to provide the conditions necessary (...)
Sunday 30 May 2010
Nineteen researchers (19) of the PanAf Network have taken part in the eLearning Africa 2010 in Lusaka, Zambia. The conference was an opportunity for the PanAf Network to showcase research results through nine (9) sessions, one (1) pre-conference session and one (1) Insaka session.
You will find below the presentations
El Hadji Habib Camara, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Sénégal
L’usage disciplinaire des TIC par les formateurs du secondaire en Afrique de (...)
Sunday 30 May 2010
The Vera Chiluba Basic School opened in 1997 and has a population of 3000 students (boys and girls) and 59 actives teachers.
According to the Deputy Head Teacher, technology was introduced in the school with the support of a project called “Learning in the Hole”, funded by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology. The objective of this program was to enhance the learning capacities of students using the computer. For that reason, two computers connected to the (...)
Sunday 30 May 2010
The session started with a word of welcome from Djénéba Traoré, ERNWACA Regional Coordinator, followed by discussions and general information about discussion lists and the agenda of publications by Thierry Karsenti and Moses Mbangwana.
Thierry Karsenti then presented and shared with the participants, a collection of papers from journals. Theses papers are to inspire and guide the participants through their publication work.
The researchers then spent the whole day working on their papers and (...)
Friday 28 May 2010
Ten years ago, nobody was betting on mobile telephony in developing countries.Today, operators are rubbing their hands : the mobile market has exploded in poor countries. In Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador, more than 80% of the population has a mobile. In Africa, where mobile subscriptions increased by 49% per year between 2002 and 2007 (against 17% in Europe), the rate is now 38%. "Operators are doing a lot of money with it"
This enthusiasm has surprised everyone. “It (...)
Wednesday 26 May 2010
The child begins to make a distinction between fiction and reality, between 6 and 8 years. Thanks to information and communication technologies (ICTs), the child has passed from a traditional mode of receiving information in a closed system to an open system exposed to a huge flow of information.
Worried experts consider that this new environment would cause a crisis of authority, that it would convey new values synonymous of freedom in all directions, immediacy and impatience. And (...)
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