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46 countries submit over 300 papers for eLearning Africa

Tuesday, 30 January 2007 01:00 | Alec Barton

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eLearning-Africa's 2nd Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training will take place on May 28 - 30, 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya.

What is now to be an annual event is intended by its organisers: ICWE GmbH and Hoffmann & Reif, to become the pre-eminent eLearning capacity-building event for the entire African continent as well as a forum for all stakeholders engaged in the planning and implementation of technology-supported learning and training.

As proof of this, more than 300 proposals from 46 countries have reached the organisers. Co-organiser Rebecca Stromeyer is optimistic that a finalised first version of the agenda will be ready by the end of February: "We have received numerous proposals of excellent quality from a wide range of public institutions, higher education organisations, and development organisations as well as from the corporate training sector...The organising committee will now evaluate the proposals, and we can already say at this stage that participants can look forward to an extensive and substantial agenda featuring presentations from major players in the African education and development sector."

The Kenyan government will be organising a high-level summit for policy makers and industry leaders within the conference at which the building of ICT infrastructures and capacities for African educational systems will be addressed. In turn, UNESCO will invite participants to an "African Summit for Technical and Vocational Education and Training" which will highlight the great relevance of this educational sector for mass education in developing countries.

Consistent with the 2007 conference's motto "Building Infrastructures and Capacities to Reach out to the Whole of Africa", the event will reach out beyond the conference centre and will feature large-scale lectures in Kenyan universities that will address both fundamental issues as well as R&D topics in the field of technology-enhanced education and training. In addition, there will be two break-out workshops devoted to the needs of rural areas and regional institutions: one in Mombasa on the Indian Ocean and one in Kisumu on Lake Victoria.

eLearning Africa 2007 will take place under the patronage of the Hon Professor George Saitoti, Minister for Education, Kenya. The call for papers has now closed. The event is supported by the European Commission, the United Nations International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training UNEVOC, as well as by BiBB, the German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training.

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