News from Funders and IndustryOracle, HP-ZTE and Microsoft kick-off NEPAD's e-school project

(Africa) Oracle, HP-ZTE and Microsoft kick-off NEPAD's e-school project. Godfrey Ikhemuemhe. Vanguard Online. Online October 2005. The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)’s e-school initiative has kicked off with the implementation of pilots under the first phase of the project in Nigeria, Uganda and Ghana. The objectives of the NEPAD e-Schools Initiative are to provide Information, Communication Technology (ICT) skills to primary and secondary school pupils to enable them function in the emerging Information Society and Knowledge Economy and to provide teachers with skills to enable them to use ICT as tools to enhance teaching and learning. It is an ambitious project which aims to provide computers and Internet access to all schools in Africa within 10 years, and also to set up health points to tie in with Nepad’s E-Health program. … Mr Osafo-Maafo (Ghana) underscored the need for teachers to brace themselves up for ICT to transform their classrooms from a static one-way flow of information from teacher to student to a dynamic student centred learning environment doing collaborative learning, both in their own classroom as well as virtual classes around the world through the Internet. ...