eLearning Africa 2012 will play host to an innovative series of children’s digital photography workshops. Terry Morris, one of the UK’s top celebrity photographers, and Adam Salkeld, an international media executive, will be working with groups of children and teenagers from Benin to create a portfolio of digital images of impressions of the conference as [...]
The tech business is booming in Africa. Using crowdsourcing technology, the Lusaka-based start-up BongoHive has produced an online map of Africa’s technology hot spots. As of April 13th, 2012, the number of innovation hubs across the Continent stands at 49 and counting. What’s behind the Hubs of Africa map? “It is very difficult to find [...]
Just as technology is defining the pace of life and work, it is also defining education. If we want youth in Africa to compete on the world stage, we need to give them the tools to empower themselves to do so. By Samba Guissé, Education Lead, Microsoft West and Central Africa Region At Microsoft, we [...]
Guy Apan Johnson is acting Secretary General of Literacy, Traditional Craftsmanship and Tourism at the Ministry of Culture in Benin. He spoke to the eLearning Africa News Service about the country’s bid to boost its tourism sector – with eLearning leading the way. The government of Benin has launched a strategic drive to grow its [...]
In implementing eLearning initiatives, even the best laid plans can go awry. Fiona Wallace is the Manager of CoZa Cares, the corporate social investment (CSI) arm of UniForum SA (the not-for-profit organisation which administrates the .co.za domain space). She spoke to the eLearning Africa News Service about the need for a sustainable game plan in [...]
Fancy a flat screen TV for a mere 4000 Kenyan Shillings? (about €36) This is the going rate for a ‘green’ TV produced at East Africa’s first eWaste recycling plant in Nairobi. According to the International Telecommunication Union, only 13% of eWaste is recycled worldwide. Developing countries which are often used as dumping grounds for [...]
The shock of being forced to drink human blood and watch his teenage sister be raped and butchered to death during Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war caused a young Sahr Yillia to lose his eyesight. Such was the extent of the trauma. Yet now, despite his blindness, he heads the Child Rescue Mission, a Sierra [...]
Interactive radio instruction is a popular way to reach those with no access to formal schooling, and thus in the Petauke District of Eastern Zambia, the recent introduction of two new radio models has boosted the popularity of the educational radio programme Learning At Taonga Market (LATM). Launched in 2000, the project was originally aimed [...]
In November 2011, the British Council and Microsoft began a five-year education and training partnership by launching the African Digital Schools project. Eighty digital hubs using Windows MultiPoint Server will be established at schools in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda in order to promote ICT use and enhance teaching practice. Claire Ighodaro CBE, [...]
Working collaboratively online helps educators develop teaching material that transcends national boundaries and reaches learners of different cultures. This has been the experience of teachers taking part in an ongoing e-twinning pilot study involving hundreds of 9-13 year olds at ten schools in Burkina Faso, France, Senegal and Togo. Coordinated by the Paris-based Association for [...]