Thursday, May 27th, 2010 / Jeudi 27 mai 2010    11:15 – 13:15

Track01B202B503D104C2
RoomZambeziLuangwaKafueNyika
TitleAwareness and Community Health EducationBuilding a Peaceful, Secure and Stable Society: The Role of ICTsImplementing and Sharing Open Source RepositoriesPlanning and Implementing Large Scale Projects
Description Raising health awareness and health education in resource-poor and remote communities remains a crucial stepping stone to reaching the Millennium Development Goals. This session explores how ICTs enhance health awareness and the delivery of health education to communities, particularly in rural areas. ICTs are increasingly playing a leading role in innovative projects designed to contribute to peace, security and stability. This session will highlight recent initiatives, involving the imaginative use of technology in a variety of challenging situations. It will also consider the conditions and key factors determining the successful implementation of ICT-based solutions. How can secured archives be opened up and transformed into an open and free wealth of information? Showcasing several open source repositories, this session highlights how the two elements of data storage and preservation have been extended to include dissemination. This bilingual session highlights large-scale ICT programmes in various sectors. What planning models apply to conditions in which delivery is a problem? Some countries have already proceeded with large-scale implementation. What can we learn from these experiences? What ‘mistakes’ should we not repeat? 
Chairperson

Lee Muzala, Global Teenager Project, Zambia

 

Harold Elletson, The New Security Foundation, UK

 

Roger Brown, University of Cape Town, South Africa

 

Stijn van der Krogt, International Institute for Communication and Development, The Netherlands

 
Content

Kwabena N. Obiri-Mainoo, MKFC/eCAP Ghana Foundation, Ghana
Delivering Health Education to Rural People in Ghana Through ICT

Derrick Mwiinga Hamavhwa, Zambia Forum for Health Research, Zambia
eLearning for Improving Health Practice and Policy in Zambia

Momodou Gassama, World Health Organization, Gambia
Health Academy – Harnessing the Power of Technology for Health Education

Julie Schurgers, University of Zambia, School of Medicine, Zambia
eLearning to Sustain Quality Education in Rural Zambian Nursing Training Schools

George Hara, Alliance Forum Foundation, Japan
Deploying Next Generation Technology to Change the World

 

Joseph Kipkoech Langat, SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, Kenya
eLearning Transforms Lives of Street Children in Kenya

Philip Kiptanui Mwei, Arnesen's High School & Mathew Kituu, The E-Learning Consortium, North Rift, Kenya
eLearning for Peace Building and Sustainability: Good School Neighbours Project

Adewale Adesina, National Open University of Nigeria, Nigeria
eLearning, Distance Education and Food Security in Africa: Capacity-Building for the Millennium Development Goals

Sidiki Traore, The African Virtual University, Senegal
Expanding AVU Online Programmes to More Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones in Africa

 

Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
The Organic.Edunet Federation: Content for a Sustainable World

Bakary Diallo, The African Virtual University, Kenya
The AVU OER Strategy and Online Repository

Damitha D. Karunaratna, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka
eNOSHA, a Learning Object Repository – Design for Flexibility, Reusability and User Friendliness

Julià Minguillón, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Promoting the Creation, Share and Use of OERs Through Open Repositories and Social Networks

Steven Stapleton, The University of Nottingham, UK
The Xpert Project: A Distributed Repository for OER

 

Serge Paronneau, Université de Limoges, IUT du Limousin, France
La médiathèque IUTenligne, instrument d'aide à l'enseignement de la technologie au niveau L

Dennis Joseph Mazali, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania

Jeroen De Wilde, VVOB Brussels, Belgium

Guy Barry, Ministry of Education, Burkina Faso

Levison Chifwaila, Chitambo Hospital, Zambia
Knowledge Network Zambia Inside Story

 

Sessions entirely coloured in orange have simultaneous French/English translation / Les sessions totalement colorées en orange seront traduites simultanément en français et en anglais

Please note that the agenda for eLearning Africa is subject to change / Veuillez noter que le programme de eLearning Africa est susceptible de changer