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Tuesday 30 December 2008
Praia, Cape Verde - The Ministry of Education and Higher Education of Cape Verde received on Monday from his counterpart of Portugal, a set of equipment to support students in special education centers , said official sources in Praia.
The donation is part of a protocol signed between the two countries since 2007 and provides support from Portugal to the education sector in Cape Verde.
As part of this support, the Secretaries of State for Education of Portugal, Walter Lemos, and Cape (...)
Wednesday 17 December 2008
A new UN e-Learning initiative, launched in Berlin in early December 2008, will offer developing countries opportunities to draw upon a rich array of training and capacity-building resources.
Sixteen UN agencies, meeting at a forum organized by UN Environment Programme (UNEP) during the 14th International Conference on Technology Supported Learning and Training in Berlin, agreed to establish UNeLearn - a UN-wide network on technology supported learning to share information and expertise, (...)
Friday 5 December 2008
The Malian Ministry of Communication and New Technologies organizes from 22 to 26 December at the International Conference Center in Bamako (CCIB) the 5th edition of “E-Festival”, an important meeting of ICT competitions between schools in the country, PANA learned from the organizers.
The program of this edition features training of students of first and second cycle of basic education, school children, ill-hearing and young graduates.
Exhibition of equipment, ICT products and services, (...)
Tuesday 2 December 2008
Google has developed applications to map educational statistics and natural resources in Africa for the benefit of the public and organizations providing basic services.
A pilot project in East Africa replicates a similar project established in India, measuring achievement in education, said Aleem Walji, a global development officer at Google.org.
In Uganda, for example, Google is working with the Bureau of Standards to record census data on the number of children existing in a particular (...)
Saturday 29 November 2008
Officials from the Ministry of Education are aware of the importance of integration of information and communication technologies (ICT)s in various stages of education. In this context, an agreement was signed last Monday with the operator Alcatel-Lucent. The partnership focuses on an educational program entitled “Knowledge for Dynamic Education”.
“This program is intended to promote, innovate and encourage economic development around information and communication technology in Morocco”, said (...)
Monday 17 November 2008
Winner of the Africa Gold Medal, in May 2008, for the Innovative Teachers Forum in Accra in Ghana, the Senegalese Ousmane Diouf, Professor at EMC Diery Fall Bambey, has just been awarded the Silver Medal at the Worldwide Innovative WWITF Teachers Forum held in Hong Kong from 4 to 6 November 2008.
As part of the global strategy of UNESCO to use information technology and communication (ICT) to improve education and social and economic development in the world, Microsoft today joined the (...)
Friday 14 November 2008
The Regional Conference on Higher Education in Africa (CRESA) held in Dakar from 10 to 14 Nov., stressed the need to create a space for African higher education, giving the example of the African Virtual University (AVU), represented by 53 centers in 30 countries all Francophone, Anglophone and Lusophone.
The AVU, as his representative in Dakar Sidiki Traore noted, focuses on “Higher Education, Research and Innovation for Development in Africa”.
Founded in 1997 and with its headquarters in (...)
Friday 7 November 2008
Praia, Cape Verde - A total of 19 secondary schools of Cape Verde will receive equipment and software tailored to specific needs of education, through a partnership between the Government of Praia and the multinational Microsoft, said here, on Friday, official sources in the capital of Cape Verde.
The project is part of the “Unlimited Potential” programme created by the American multinational which aims, by this means, to help developing countries improve the education system to encourage (...)
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