INFOTUNISIE - Tunisia continues to enhance its access to new digital era through its various channels including membership in many international fora, like the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).
Represented by the Ecole Superieure des Communications de Tunis (Sup’Com), Tunisia has now become the 2nd Arab country and the 4th country in overall Africa to become a member of this organization which brings together 48 national companies from 65 countries, specializing (...)
APA Libreville (Gabon) Gabon comes in the 8th position on African development index of information technology and communication (ICT), according to the latest report by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) entitled " Measuring the Information Society 2010 ".
This central African country owes its current classification to the exceptional development of mobile telephony, the report said. Between 1990 and 2009 the number of cellular subscribers was (...)
The President of the Republic (France) has entrusted to Alain Madelin, former Minister, the mission to develop the program Sankore. The latter is based on the achievement of the MDGs for Education in Africa. It is implemented by the Interministerial Delegation for Digital Education in Africa.
With a light and low-cost equipment, teachers and students will able to access some small wealth of digital heritage in education. Indeed, they see their blackboards turn into interactive screen. To (...)
Editor: Georges-Louis Baron (EDA, University Paris Descartes, France)
The expected contributions for this issue will focus on: Public policy towards ICT, particularly in french-speaking areas Features and lesson plans implemented, whether the context is highly or poorly equipped technically and materially. Educators and technological developments Performances of the involved. actors Innovative school practices Mobilization of stakeholders on (...)
In France’s relations with Africa, we had the habit of "white elephants" (these large dams or hospitals imagined in the Parisian ministries that often remained at the planning stage). There will now also be ... interactive whiteboards !
While many African countries are experiencing a revolution since the extension of mobile network - and access to the internet in the most remote villages - and they get seats on Chinese satellites, France uses the ceremonies on July 14 to (...)
The Moroccan-Korean Center for training in the field of information communication and technology for education (ICT4Ed), which is part of the partnership signed in June 2008 between the State Secretariat of School Education and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), was inaugurated Thursday in Rabat.
Inaugurated by the Ministry of National and Higher Education and Scientific Research, Mr. Ahmed Akhchichine, the Secretary of State for School Education, Ms. Latifa El Abida, and (...)
7-8 September 2010
Kenyatta International Conference Centre Nairobi, Kenya
Introduction
Kenya, and increasingly the rest of East Africa, now has the ICT infrastructure and services in place to be a world-class provider of IT-enabled services. The AITEC East Africa ICT Summit 2010 provides the platform to achieve this vision through a multi-faceted event that will draw together the many strands of a vibrant growth market, underpinning high-level business-to-business services (...)
Export Development Canada (EDC) will invest up to USD 20 million in the Africa Telecommunications, Media and Technology Fund I, LLC (ATMT), where its involvement will help encourage Canadian supply to the burgeoning information, communication and technology (ICT) sector on the African continent.
"The explosive pace of wireless and broadband growth in East Africa offers tremendous opportunities for Canada’s telecom and technology sectors, and our involvement in the ATMT fund will have a (...)
