Technology and Education in Africa

When :

from Tuesday 22 September, 2015
15:00
to Wednesday 23 September, 2015
17:55

Type of event :

Meeting by Member States or Institutions

Where :

UNESCO Headquarters, 7, place de Fontenoy, 75007, Paris, France

Contact :

f.pedro@unesco.org

The event will present the joint AFD-AUF-Orange-UNESCO publication on ICT in education in Africa.

The Agence Française de Développement, the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, Orange and UNESCO organize this workshop on “Technology and Education in Africa” (afternoon of September 22 at UNESCO Headquarters and morning of September 23 at Orange Labs).
Following the recent release of the joint publication “Digital Services for Education in Africa” (http://www.unesco.org/ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?catno=231867&set=00559E840C_2... ) by these four organizations, the objective of the workshop is to present and discuss the main findings and policy recommendations contained in this report, as well as to illustrate the challenges and innovative solutions drawing on already ongoing projects in Sub-saharan African countries.
The working languages are English and French, with simultaneous translation.