Participants' Reviews
eLearning Africa 2010
"The eLearning Africa Conference continues to be a worthwhile conference that every educator, policymaker and eLearner needs to plan to attend every year."
Gabriel S. Konayuma, Ministry of Science, Technology & Vocational Training, Zambia
“Sometimes you think you are doing great in whatever you’re involved with. Attend this conference; you’ll be amazed by what others are doing as well. It’s just such a marvellous conference, I would never want to miss it.”
Charles Fodya, Chancellor College, Malawi
“The conference really benefi ted me a lot. I learnt many things from my friends from
all walks of life and we hope to implement the same things here in Zambia.”
Milda Salamu Hanengeta, Zambia National Union of Teachers (ZNUT), Zambia
“The conference was well organised, relevant, inspiring and enlightening.”
Catherine Mwenya, Munali Boys High School, Zambia
“A fabulous experience overall. Thanks so much.”
Fiona Wallace, UniForum SA, South Africa
“Bishop Johnson Tilewa of Gambia made a salient point which I have argued with
lecturers over the years, he is my star of the show.”
Ugochukwu Samson Nwosu, Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, Nigeria
“I took away more than I expected and hope to attend eLA 2011. Good content
delivered by good speakers in a well organised event.”
Hamadu Hassan, National Health Insurance Authority, Ghana
“Simply an eye opener and a very worthwhile event. Looking forward to another
one.”
Pascal Edwin Ngosa, The Technical and Vocational Teachers' College (TVTC), Zambia
“Excellent - thanks to the organizers.”
Dr J.P. Bosman, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
“J’ai été ravi de vous rencontrer et d’être témoin que la manifestation que vous avez
organisé cette année à Lusaka a été une sommité, je ne sais pas de ma mémoire
de conférencier averti si une manifestation déjà organisée en Afrique tout secteur
confondu a eu plus de monde. Félicitations.”
Diadié Toure, Union Internationale des Télécommunications (UIT), Senegal
"The exhibitions, fantastic. The conviviality, splendid. But the Opening Plenary was electric, we could not have started on a better footing!”
The Rt Rev Dr S. Tilewa Johnson, Anglican Bishop of Gambia, Gambia
"The conference was excellent. It was a perfect opportunity to learn best practices from professionals and experts from various institutions all over the world. It gave me an opportunity to make comparisons between what I can and cannot do, inspired me to learn more so as to fill the gap in my knowledge and apply the same to support teaching and learning in Africa."
Charles Omondi Lwande, University of Nairobi,Kenya
"Every year the eLearning Africa Conference gets better and better. It is a pleasure to attend and a great learning experience."
Theresa Maria Stanton, International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD), The Netherlands
"An enjoyable, interesting and useful event that enables interaction with Africa for enhanced capacity building."
Dr James O. Uhomoibhi, University of Ulster, UK
"Well done. I really enjoyed the conference and especially meeting with a lot of new people from different African institutions and from around the world."
Igor Lesko, OpenCourseWare Consortium, USA
“Once again our participation in eLearning Africa was enriching and fruitful. Our Pre-Conference Workshop turned out to be a great success, with all participants actively contributing to the creation of a checklist for developing eLearning strategies for their respective organisations and institutions. Our exhibition booth was highly successful, too. We managed to attract great interest for out products and services, and our optimum location significantly contributed to that.”
Jens Schneider, Namibia eLearning Centre (NeLC), Namibia
"An excellent learning experience as a whole. We enjoyed several inspiring speeches as well as innovative presentations and discussions during our conference days, spiced up with cross-cultural insights, a feeling of togetherness, a sense of humour and sharing. Thank you very much!"
Ilmo Anttila, Central Ostrobothnia University of Applied Sciences, Finland
“I networked with many valuable future collaborators and gained fruitful insights. The conference was a hugely beneficial event for us and I believe many also enjoyed hearing and sharing what we have developed in the field of QR Codes. In total excellent!”
Gregory George Smith, NiMBLE, South Africa
“Thank you so much for a superbly organised event! We saw people who are genuinely interested in our products, which means good leads. The conference was pitched just right. Thank you all for your efficient, friendly and polite service at all times.”
Charmaine Friel, Sherston-Sheshani, South Africa
“Another wonderful and fantastic eLA, we feel at home every year and we really appreciate all the help, effort and support we receive from you in person and from your entire team. Once again it was worth it for us.”
Maggy Beukes-Amiss, Namibia eLearning Centre (NeLC), Namibia
“Congratulations on a great event.”
Sheila Jagannathan, The World Bank Institute, USA
“Full marks to the ICWE team for another successful eLearning Africa.”
Gerard Cunningham, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Kenya
“Please allow me to express my utmost appreciation for enabling me to attend eLA 2010. The experience will always be memorable.”
Vincent Kizza, Ministry of Education, Uganda
"Very well organised. Please keep up the work for Africa's development."
Darlington Kahilu, Ministry of Agriculture & Cooperatives, Zambia
"The eLearning Africa conference was an eye-opener for me on the need to shift from teacher-focused to student-focused teaching methods.”
Dr Samuel Babafemi Olaleye, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
"eLearning Africa enabled us to realise the great opportunities that arise when technology is used to sort out the unique problems that Africa has in an innovative manner."
Peter Kisare Otieno, AMREF - African Medical and Research Foundation, Kenya
eLearning Africa 2009
"Please accept my sincere congratulations on your successful eLearning Africa conference in Dakar, Senegal. I learned so much from this conference. My meeting with Ministers of Education was very productive for my 500/12 Initiative and I will be working with thstrong in the future."
Dr Paul Jhin, UN-GAID, USA"
"I was at the eLearning conference yesterday morning and I was impressed by the number of participants and the diversity of the workshops."
Aminata Ly Faye, Canadian strongbassy, Senegal"
"I'm very happy to congratulate the entire team which worked very hard to make eLearning Africa 2009 a success, as usual. The innovations introduced this year have been very important, such as the plenary end of conference debate which revealed great concerns of participants on the way technology is to be implstrongented in Africa, and the recommendation to make it be known by decision makers all over the world. Thanks again, and courage to all. I know it is never done before each of you knows the conference has come to end and every participant is safely back to home."
Gaston Donnat Bappa, Microlog, Cameroon"
"Let me congratulate you and your team for the great success of the Conference. Its organisation, managstrongent, quality of audience and presentations, everything has been at the highest level. I hope that I will be able to attend the next one in Zambia."
Gérard Rwagasana, National University of Rwanda, Rwanda"
"Thank you very much for a wonderful conference. I would love to be part of next year's proceedings as the conference has allowed me to network, present our research and have lots of interesting discussions. Congratulations on all your hard work, both before and during the conference. I look forward to seeing the pics, videos, and docs that you will be sending to us, delegates. [...]"
Karen Ferreira-Meyers, University of Swaziland, Swaziland"
"I really, really had a great time, intellectually challenging and professionally motivating, so I am, as we say in Southern Africa, 'chaffed about it'."
Karen Ferreira-Meyers, University of Swaziland, Swaziland"
"Thanks for your help and support with this event. Our guys on-site found it an excellent event and made good contacts. I look forward to receiving the post-event report. As soon as information is available on the 2010 event please let me know."
David Angwin, Wyse Technology, UK"
"This year’s conference was above previous standards. I feel very honored of chairing the very interesting session. Personally and the mstrongbers of my company, we would like to participate and offer more to the eLA conference, therefore please let’s be in contact."
Litsa Panayotopoulos, OTE Acadstrongy, Greece"
"eLearning Africa was very fruitful and there are a lot of things I have learnt from this conference. Currently, I am compiling a report which I would like to share with my college. I intend to pick out technologies and organisations which we can strongploy and involve, respectively, in our eLearning project. After this conference, it is now very exciting and easier to work on our project and we are now doing it with a much wider vision."
Charles Fodya, Chancellor College, Malawi"
"I just wanted to say, on behalf of the whole team: many thanks for a great great show and the outstanding support from ICWE before and during the show! We met many high level people and had a great time! Great thought leadership event and outstanding audience!"
Geraldine Rizzo, NComputing, UK"
"I must say I am proud to be associated with the eLearning Africa Conference. eLA is a powerful vehicle for popularizing and accelerating eLearning roll out in Africa. Too many of our communities are increasingly being left out of developments, and eLearning is one of the most powerful tools to avail opportunities. Zambia, with your help, is determined to make the eLA2010 a success."
Thomson Sinkala, University of Zambia, Zambia"
"Je voulais vous rstrongercier de m'avoir incité à participer à eLearning Africa. J'ai pu y suivre des présentations très intéressantes et surtout prendre de nombreux contacts. J'ai reçu quelques messages de propositions de collaboration. J'espère que certaines pourront aboutir. Les collaborations Nord/Sud intéressent mon équipe."
Eric Sanchez, Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique, France"
"This conference provided CyberSmart! with an excellent networking & market opportunity! We’ll be back!"
James Teicher, CyberSmart! Education, USA"
"Very well done! I am truly impressed with ICWE’s capability in gathering over 1200 people throughout Africa and have such a smooth running of a 2 – 3 day event. Congratulations for a job extrstrongely well done."
Rama George-Alleyne, Global Development Learning Network, USA"
"Excellent organisation. Friendly staff. Very good turnout of participants."
Batoul Ajlouni, Integrated Technology Group, Jordan"
"Very well organised event with a diverse and interesting programme. The high-level endorsstrongent of the event from senior decision makers means the event is good value for money for supporting existing commercial relationships and for evaluating new opportunities."
Paul Coyne, strongerald Group Publishing Limited, UK"
"An excellent event. Full marks to the organisers."
Iqbal Siddiqui, Designmate, India
"A big thumbs up and keep up the good work. Hope to see you again!!"
Philise Rasugu, The African Virtual University, Kenya"
"J’ai été agréablstrongent surprise par le dynamisme, la bonne-humeur et l’ambiance générale rencontrée pendant cette conférence. Certainstrongent á refaire ! !! Merci pour votre excellente organisation."
Maria Beatrice Teixeira, Formateix, Belgium"
"L’équipe de la conférence est très professionnelle et a su répondre aux dstrongandes que j’ai pu émettre. Merci !"
Nicolas Charbonneau, CELCAT, France"
"Un grand merci à l’équipe. Très intéressant, super organisation !"
Ilse Straub, ELIG, France"
"Thank you for the excellent organisation of the conference and the exhibition! We made a lot of new contacts and we are confident that some new partnerships may develop from these initial meetings. We may certainly be interested in attending the next eLearning Africa event in Zambia."
Lars Strupeit & Katsiaryna Paulavets, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Sweden"
"Thank you for the conference, it was superbly organised. Now, I am looking forward to seeing the results."
Ilan Weichselbaum, Sky 2 Net, Israel"
"My dstrongonstration was a huge success and we will keep you informed of possible collaborative efforts that this dstrongonstration initiated. It was a pleasure to meet like-minded individuals working in the area of rural development."
Justin Mupinda, World Links, Zimbabwe"
"The conference brings almost the whole of Africa together to discuss important issues such as education and development despite the existing political, religious and cultural differences and that is a very important step in uniting the Continent."
John Stephen Oluoch, Cordio East Africa, Kenya"
"This conference was exellent."
Richard John Self, University of Derby, UK"
"A very successful conference."
Jerome Terpase Dooga, University of Jos, Nigeria"
"A very good and well organised conference."
Dr Peter Adebayo Aborisade, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria"
"Very good effort! Getting even more exciting and entrenched into the arena of major global events."
Dr Elijah I. Omwenga, University of Nairobi, Kenya"
"Really think you are doing a great job, I am already advertising for next year :)"
Susanna Ackermann, Learnthings Africa, South Africa"
"I found this conference to be well organised, planned and run in sometimes difficult circumstances. Well done and thank you. If I have a paper to present next year, I will certainly see you in Zambia!!"
Peta Bezuidenhout, Rhodes University, South Africa"
"Continue the good challenging work. We are getting there. You are a great team and we should succeed at all costs."
Morecome Mumba, ZESCO Limited, Zambia"
"eLearning Africa 2009 has been very inspiring to me!"
Ibrahima Sory Coumbassa, Université de Conakry, Guinea"
"I'm glad that I participated in the eLearning Africa Conference in Dakar, Senegal. It gave me a wider horizon and broadened my views. All in all, the eLearning Africa Conference in Dakar, Senegal was a success. Thank you."
Peace Abraham, AfriHUB Nig Ltd, Nigeria"
"One of the best organised conferences I attend, both pre-, during and post- conference. The huge commitment of the organisers is clearly evident for which they should be highly commended. Well done!"
Anonymous speaker"
"I am extrstrongely pleased I attended. I was delighted to learn about such a range of initiatives – from texting students to providing radio broadcasts to rural farmers. Would love to attend again to hear updates."
Anonymous participant"
"I was impressed and satisfied with the overall organisation and managstrongent of the 4th eLA Conference. Kudos to ICWE, Dakar Government and eLA Planning Committee and all participants."
Agnes Akuvi Adjabeng, Environmental Protection Agency, Ghana"
"Thanks for organising such an inspiring event!"
Rob van den Bogaard, The Netherlands"
"I especially appreciate your support through the bursary programme which enabled me to attend this special conference. Thanks a lot. I can not thank you enough. I look forward to next eLearning Africa conferences."
Chinwe Veronica Anunobi, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Nigeria"
