SURVEY OF ICT AND EDUCATION IN AFRICA - infoDev

Global Teenager Project (GTP) | www.globalteenager.orgThe Global Teenager Project is an initiative of the Dutch-based International Institute for Communicationand Development (IICD). It was launched in 1999 to promote the use of ICTs in the classroom. Theproject focuses on collaborative learning among secondary school students and teachers from around theworld through a safe, structured virtual environment known as “learning circles.” Thus far the projectinvolves about 3,000 teachers and students from 200 classes in over 29 countries. The most participants arefrom Africa, involving learners, teachers, and schools from 12 countries.Hewlett Foundation | www.hewlett.orgBased in San Francisco, the Hewlett Foundation provides resources in support of activities in education,environment, global development, performing arts, and population. In Africa, the Hewlett Foundation haspromoted the development of open education resources, and it supported the AVU in the development of acomprehensive open educational resources architecture to ensure the efficient application of the opencontent movement in African higher education and training institutions. It also supported the MerakaInstitute in South Africa to promote the development of a collection of papers describing the use of openeducational resources in tertiary education, in primary and secondary schools, and within communities inSouth Africa.Highway Africa | www.highwayafrica.ru.ac.zaHighway Africa is an annual ICT conference hosted by Rhodes University in South Africa. Each year, morethan 500 delegates from across the globe attend the conference to discuss issues relating to Internet governance,ICT policy, and media for democracy. Highway Africa also produces a weekly on-line bulletin, theHANA Weekly Digest, which documents progress in ICT for development, including ICTs in education inAfrica.International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Acacia |www.idrc.caThe IDRC is based in Canada and its Acacia programme, which was established in 1996, seeks to empowersub-Saharan communities with the ability to apply ICTs to their own social and economic development.The IDRC has supported a number of pilot projects and action research in the area of ICTs in education,particularly the initial establishment of schoolnet organisations in some African countries.International Education Resources Network (iEARN) | www.iearn.orgiEARN is one of the largest and oldest global networks of teachers and learners that use ICTs in a diverserange of collaborative learning projects. All iEARN projects are designed, initiated, and run by teachers andlearners. Its network in Africa involves learners and teachers from schools in 29 countries.International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) | www.iicd.orgThe IICD is a non-profit foundation based in the Netherlands that specialises in ICTs for development. TheIICD has supported a number of programmes such as its Global Teenager Project as well as projectssupporting teacher development through ICTs in Tanzania and ICT for education policy processes inZambia.Intel | www.intel.comIntel is a global company focused on silicon innovation and development of technologies, products, andinitiatives, to continually advance how people work and live. Intel’s education efforts centre on improvingteaching and learning through the use of ICTs. The focus is on advancing math, science, and engineeringeducation and research. Intel also works with education leaders worldwide on solutions that support thecreation of 21st century skills. Their programme, Intel Teach, which is currently running in Ghana, Egypt,Nigeria, and South Africa, has reached four million teachers in 40 countries and is targeted to reach 10million by 2011. Intel recently announced its new Intel World Ahead programme, a project to providecheaper computers to schools and boost wireless Internet links. Target countries in Africa are Egypt, Ghana,Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.38Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: A Summary Report Based on 53 Country Surveys