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À la Case des Touts Petits à Dakar, les enfants sont accueillis dès leur plus jeune âge. L’endroit est à la fois un nid protecteur et un tremplin vers la vie pour les petits Sénégalais défavorisés. Ils y reçoivent des soins, de l’affection et ils s’ouvrent au monde à travers des activités d’éveil variées. Ils ont entre autre accès à des ordinateurs comme moyen de jeu et de familiarisation avec l’outil informatique. Cette initiative fait partie des différents programmes mis en place au Sénégal autour des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication pour l’Enseignement (TICE). Christine Cayre dresse un bref portrait du pays. D'un autre côté, le boum de la téléphonie mobile et l'envolée du nombre des opérateurs du secteur de la télécommunication sont des facteurs pouvant aider le Sénégal à mettre en place une politique TIC dans un futur proche.
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Le Rwanda a rejoint le programme One Laptop per Child (Un Ordinateur Portable par Enfant - OLPC) en Janvier 2007. Richard Niyonkuru a été nommé par le Ministère de l’Education pour coordonner le déploiement du programme. Nous l’avons joint pour lui demander où en est le projet, comment les enfants et les enseignants accueillent l’arrivée des ordinateurs. Richard Nyonkuru nous a parlé des défis qui restent à relever pour faire un succès de ce programme mais aussi de l’engouement des élèves et de l’engagement des enseignants.
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At the World AIDS Conference, currently taking place in Mexico City, former African leaders have launched a regional campaign to put pressure on politicians. They are urging African governments to increase efforts to combat the virus. An unprecedented mobilisation for prevention involving political leaders as well as all sectors of civil society should be priority number one for all in the fight against AIDS, Festus Mugae, the former president of Botswana said in his opening address on Sunday, August 3rd.
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A team from ICWE visited Kempshot Grammar Academy, a school in a fishing village around 50 kilometres from Accra, after this year’s eLearning Africa conference. ICWE donated to the school, which is currently struggling to find suitable solar-powered computer equipment to supply the mandatory ICT education to its students.
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“International conferences like eLearning Africa offer us valuable opportunities to network with partners, to exchange ideas and to initiate new processes”, says Dr Til Schönherr, project manager for eLearning strategy and management, media-didactic advice and training at InWEnt, Capacity Building International, Germany – a non-profit international organisation with worldwide operations dedicated to human resources development, advanced training and dialogue. In regard to InWEnt’s eLearning networks, eLA is the most important “place to be” in Africa. At the third eLA, InWEnt was intensely involved in UNEP’s pre-conference activities related to the usability of eLearning for environmental education.
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This year’s eLearning Africa Gold Sponsor Microsoft decided to hold its first Pan-African Innovative Teachers Forum, which ran parallel to the conference. Ronald Ddungu of Gayaza High School in Uganda was among the Forum award winners with his project on Education for Sustainability. The dedicated Mathematics and Physics teacher organised a region-wide mathematics contest in Uganda. The idea is for his students to collaborate with peers from Uganda and abroad on working out challenging tasks.
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The year 2008 marked Eduvision’s third year of participation in the eLearning Africa conference. The company designs customised education solutions for developing countries, an audience that Eduvision can directly approach at the event. “eLearning Africa is of great importance to Eduvision”, says the company’s new CEO, Dr. Kuno Jung. “The role as the platinum sponsor gave us the opportunity to present and explain a holistic view of overcoming educational challenges in these countries.”
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Extraterrestrial life, feeding and digestion in mammals, angles and light energy - these are only some of the scientific topics discussed on www.skoool.com.gh, a platform run jointly by eLearning Africa’s Gold Sponsor Intel and the government of Ghana. The educational tool, aligned to Ghana’s new education curriculum, was officially launched in the course of the recent eLearning Africa conference in Accra. With skoool.com.gh, students should be “equipped with information and technology knowledge that is essential to prepare them for the future job markets”, said Dr Benjamin Aggrey Ntim, Ghana’s Minister for Communication.
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Han Fraeters, WBI, USA and Mike Trucano, infoDev, the World Bank, USA led a highly participative session at eLearning Africa this year in which they tried to predict - with the help of about sixty participants - what would be on the agenda for eLearning Africa 2020. According to them, the future of eLearning on the Continent will be mainly open source, mobile and focused on the learner.
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The UNECA and the Global eSchools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI) co-organised a Ministerial meeting on “ICTs in Education” on Wednesday, May 28th at the Conference Centre in Accra, Ghana. The event catered to the needs of African governments seeking closer collaboration on the Continent in the area of ICTs in education and took place as an eLearning Africa 2008 pre-conference event.

The meeting was attended by ministers of education from Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. In addition, over 50 participants from 21 countries, including Permanent Secretaries, partners, as well as international and regional institutions such as UNESCO, IDRC, SDC and Cisco Systems were in attendance.

A summary of the meeting can be foundhere ...