The report of the First African Ministerial Forum on ICT Integration in Education and Training is now available...
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The First Inter-Ministerial Forum held from 9 – 11 December in Tunis ended with a call for African countries to prepare and adopt a national policy framework to integrate ICT in their education and training systems...
Education and training ministers from throughout Africa took part in a panel at the First African Ministerial Forum on ICT Integration in Education and Training in Tunis. The ministerial panel took place on 11 December, the last day of the three-day forum.
“We at ADEA are heartened by the large and quality turn-out at this event.” declared Hamidou Boukary, Acting Executive Secretary, at the official opening of the Ministerial Forum on the Integration of ICTs in Education and Training in Africa.
Half of all the schoolchildren in the world are in Africa, the forum on ICT integration on education and training being held in Tunis heard. But so many of those children, and other students, are hard to reach for reasons including geography, connectivity, health, and competing priorities.
Until 1956, date of the end of the French protectorate, Tunisia had a very high illiteracy rate and faced similarly high population growth. Since its accession to independence, the country has made education a priority, allocating to it about 7% of its annual GDP, with the result that Tunisia has ranked as one of the best-performing countries where investment in education and training are concerned. Moreover, Tunisia’s education system is a key factor in the country’s overall economic development...
Tarek CHEHIDI, Ph.D.
Senior Programme Development Specialist
GeSCI – Founded by UN ICT Task Force
Email: tarek.chehidi@gesci.org