Education

All the infrastructure in the world is meaningless without human support. Millions of Africans – children and  adults – hold the potential to transform their communities into healthier and more sustainable vehicles of change. However, future innovators first need an education. Especially important are the youth (nearly 50% of Africa’s population is under the age of 18).

  1. “The eLearning Africa Report 2013,” eLearning Africa, May 2013. {eLA}
  2. “A By-the-E-Book Education, for $5 a Month,” Tina Rosenberg, The New York Times Opinionator, May 22, 2013. {Opinionator}
  3. “MOOCs in Africa,” Michael Trucano, World Bank EduTech Blog, Apr 12, 2013. {EduTech Blog}
  4. “CyberSmart Africa: Building a model for highly scalable digital learning,” Jim Teicher, GRID, Feb 4, 2013. {FOSIGRID}
  5. “Peer-to-Peer Learning in ICT Hubs,” Hilda Moraa, Jan 7, 2013. {hildamoraa.com}
  6. “The future of education in Africa is mobile,” BBC Future, Aug 24, 2012. {BBC}
  7. “Developing ICT Skills in African Teachers,” Michael Trucano, World Bank, Jul 6, 2012. {World Bank}
  8. “Equiping student and schools with adapted e-learning devices,” Dzingai Mutumbuka, Chair of ADEA, ICT Indaba, June 2012. {ICT Indaba}
  9. “The eLearning 2012 Report,” eLearning Africa, May 2012. {eLA}
  10. “*iHub Model,” *iHub Research, 2012. {iHub}
  11. “Digital Learning Resources,” EduTechDebate, Jan 2012. {EduTechDebate}
  12. “Inveneo Buyers Guide to Sustainable ICT Infrastructure in Low Resource Settings,” Inveneo, Nov 2011. {Inveneo}
  13. “Pedagogical Integration of ICT: Successes and Challenges from 100+ African Schools, 3rd Edition” IDRC, Nov 2011. {ERNWACA}
  14. “DSpace in Africa: Growing Open Access to Knowledge and Culture,” Open Access Week, October 24-30, 2011. {Open Access Week}
  15. “Mobile Technologies for Child Protection,” Mirkka Mattila, UNICEF WCARO, October 2011. {Unicef}
  16. “The State of Research and Education Networking in Africa,” Dr. Boubakar Barry, Educational Technology Debate, June 2011. {ETD}
  17. “eLearning Africa 2011: Download PanAf Presentations,” May 28, 2011, ERNWACA/PanAf, {ERNWACA}
  18. “Use of Web 2.0 in the Schools of the Panaf Project” Apr 6, 2011, IDRC, {ERNWACA}
  19. “Pedagogical Integration of ICT: Successes and Challenges from 87 African Schools, 2nd Edition” IDRC, Feb 28, 2011. {ERNWACA}
  20. ICDL Case Studies, 2007-2011. {ICDL Africa}
  21. “ICT applications as e-health solutions in rural healthcare in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa,” 2010, Health Information Management Journal Vol 39 No 1. {HIMAA}
  22. “Unlocking the Promise of ICTs for Transforming Agriculture in Africa” Aug 17, 2010, Towela Nyirenda-Jere, CTA/NEPAD, {CTA}
  23. “An ICT Curriculum for Africa,” July 2010, Kim Thomas, {Future Lab}
  24. “A New ICT Maturity Model for Education Institutions in Developing Countries,” Apr 26, 2010, Julian M. Bass, {Manchester University}
  25. “ALL for the ‘e’: Initiatives in a limited access environment,” Mar 23, 2010, Brian Sikute and Victor Mensah, Commonwealth Youth Programme Regional Centre for Africa, {mak.ac.ug}
  26. “Can eBooks replace printed books in Africa?” Dec 18, 2009, Michael Trucano, {World Bank}
  27. “The Power of WWW: You Are What You Know,” ThinkAboutIt, April 2009. {ThinkAboutIt}
  28. “From the gong-gong to ICTs,” Enda Tiers-Monde and Jeunesse Action, African Movement of Working Children and Youth, 2009. {maejt.org}
  29. “e-Skills Volume One 2008 Policy Paper 3,” 2009, Jan Philipp Schmidt & Christoph Stork. {Research ICT Africa}
  30. Gender Research in Africa into ICTs for Empowerment (GRACE) Research Projects. GRACE, 2006-Present. {Grace Network}
  31. “Telecentres: knowledge sharing in rural Africa”, Dean Mulozi, Rural 21, Jun 2008. {share4dev.info}
  32. Survey of ICT in Education in Africa,” 2007, infoDev. {infoDev} Snapshots of ICT in education for all 53 African nations. Four years old, but still of great value.
  33. “ICT in Education: Content Issues as Kiswahili reigns,” iConnect Online. {share4dev.info}
  34. “Successful Distance Education Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa,” John Leary & Zane Berge, TOJDE April 2007, Volume: 8 Number: 2 Article: 12. {TOJDE}
  35. “Africa: eLearning Africa”, AfricaFocus Bulletin, May 29, 2007. {AfricaFocus}
  36. “Come Together: African Universities Collaborate to Improve Bandwidth”, Lisa Waldick, Dec 2005. {IDRC}
  37. “Building ICT4D capacity in and by African universities,” R. D. Colle, IJEDICT, 2005, Vol. 1, Issue I, pp. 101-107. {share4dev.info}
  38. “Information and Communication Technologies in the Education Sector,” Round Table Workshop, May 19, 2003. {share4dev.info}
  39. “Telecenters and the Gender Dimension,” Kelby Johnson, May 1, 2003. {share4dev.info}
  40. “The Acacia Initiative,” IDRC, 2002. (Web Archive) {IDRC}
  41. “The Community Telecentre Cookbook for Africa,” Mike Jensen & Anriette Esterhuysen, UNESCO, 2001. {UNESCO}
  42. “Increasing Computer Literacy in Africa”, Khaitsa Wasiyo, ATF Vol.8, 1998. {MIT}