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Saturday, June 02, 2007
eLearning 'key' to African development - AFP
Technology-hungry educators and government administrators Monday kicked off a three-day meeting in the Kenyan capital to boost the role of the Internet in education in Africa. More than 1,300 delegates from 88 countries are attending the second international eLearning Africa conference that seeks to help mainstream technology in education to serve an increasingly information-hungry population. Topics at the conference, also attended by technology giants, range from the use of mobile phones as education tools, training civil servants through distance learning, and the role of eLearning in HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention. "We are trying to show how the ICT [Information and Communication Technology] environment can actually be used for every day teaching and learning," said Olubunmi Ekundare, an education manager for Intel who has implemented eLearning programs in several rural Nigerian villages.
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