Fantastic Response to eLearning Africa 2007
 eLearning Africa 2007 is enjoying a fantastic response from the African and international educational communities. The first eLearning Africa conference, held in 2006 in Addis Ababa, realized more than 800 participants and immediately established itself as a landmark for capacity building, networking, and collaboration for Africa. The registration of participants by late March 2007 for this year’s event was almost four times higher than it had been in March 2006 for last year’s conference.
Hon. Prof. George Saitoti, Minister of Education, Kenya
The Opening Plenary for eLearning Africa will include a welcome from the patron the Hon. Prof. George Saitoti, Minister of Education in Kenya, as well as a number of keynote presentations from senior ministerial representatives from several African nations. The Opening Plenary will serve to launch the eLearning Africa conference as well as the many associated events and networking activities that surround this key event in the history of eLearning in Africa.
The Hon. Prof. George Saitoti and the Kenyan National Advisory Committee have been engaged in the conference programme preparation and have been mobilizing the Kenyan educational community to participate actively at the event through country-wide awareness building and the establishment of new mechanisms for outreach and capacity building.
This year’s conference encompasses twenty themes, addressing all aspects of technology-enhanced education and training. The conference also features a number of new exciting activities including:
- The first African “Technical and Vocational Education and Training – TVET” Summit, with the title “Access to and Inclusion in TVET in Africa Through New ICT-Based Solutions”, organized by UNESCO-UNEVOC, the Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO BREDA;
- The High-Level Policy Maker and Industry Leader Retreat and Round Table, with the title “Accelerating the Building of ICT Infrastructures and Capacities for African Educational Systems”;
- Break-out workshops provided by eLA expert speakers, to be held at the University of Maseno in Kisumu and the Polytech in Mombasa, as well as large-scale lectures at universities in Nairobi.
 Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi Kenya
Home of eLearning Africa 2007
The venue for the event is the Safari Park Hotel. Located in a large, beautiful tropical park, the hotel offers an ideal environment for learning, networking and recreation.
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