News from eLearning Africa

    • Exploring the Intersection of Education and Innovation in Kigali from May 29 - 31

      eLearning Africa | Kigali, Rwanda |

      eLearning Africa, the continent's leading conference and exhibition on digital learning, training, and skills development, is set to convene its 2024 edition from 29-31 May in Kigali, Rwanda. This landmark event, co-hosted by the Ministry of Education, Rwanda, promises to bring together an unprecedented gathering of experts, educators, policymakers, business leaders, and innovators from across Africa and beyond, focusing not only on education but also on crucial aspects of training and skills development.

    • eLearning Africa call for papers

      eLearning Africa |

      eLearning Africa takes place in Dakar, Senegal from May 24 – 26 and its call for papers is open though to November 30.

    • eLearning Africa 2023: Call for Papers

      eLearning Africa |

      eLearning Africa 2023 takes place in Dakar, Senegal from May 24, and today opened its call for submissions to the conference programme.

    • eLearning Africa 2023 announced for Dakar

      eLearning Africa |

      The 16th eLearning Africa conference and exhibition on ICT for education, training and skills development, is to take place in Dakar, Senegal from May 24 – 26, 2023.

    • eLearning Africa: Let's seize the Moment, say Ministers

      eLearning Africa |

      African countries should “seize the moment” and take advantage of a historic opportunity for “massive, long-term, sustainable economic growth,” according to Rwanda’s Minister of ICT and Innovation, Paula Ingabire. And Rwandan Education Minister, Dr Valentine Uwamariya, warned that “failing to focus now on education, training and technology would be unforgivable.”

    • TooShare – the African Network Revolutionising EdTech

      eLearning Africa |

      TooShare is a technological feat that aims to revolutionize education for all in order to overcome the deficiencies of the educational system through easy access to educational content. This digital alternative to schools and universities is 100% African and that combines an e-learning platform and a social network.

    • eLearning Africa: Advancing from Abidjan

      eLearning Africa |

      eLearning Africa shows the world “what an exciting, innovative continent Africa is” say the organisers of Africa’s leading conference on technology assisted learning and training, eLearning Africa. This year’s eLearning Africa, which took place in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire from 23 -27 October and focussed on “the keys to the future: learnability and employability” was a “great success,” they say.

    • Africa Gets Sneak Preview of Germany’s New Learning Platform

      eLearning Africa |

      Participants at Africa’s top education and technology conference have been given a sneak preview of an innovative eLearning platform, which is set to be launched as part of the German Government’s digital strategy.

    • French expertise features prominently at eLearning Africa in Abidjan

      eLearning Africa |

      French expertise features prominently in the 2019 edition of Africa’s most respected technology supported education and training conference and exhibition event. This year’s eLearning Africa convenes in Abidjan on 23-25 October under the theme “learnability and employability”. The annual pan-African conference is dedicated to examining the potential for using new communications technologies to spread educational opportunity.

    • German engagement at Africa’s leading conference and exhibition on ICT for education

      eLearning Africa |

      Germany will affirm its strong partnership with Africa, as experts gather to discuss “learnability and employability” at the 2019 eLearning Africa in Abidjan. This year sees the greatest-ever combined German engagement at Africa’s leading conference and exhibition on ICT for Education, Training and Skills Development. Now in its fourteenth year, the event convenes in the Ivorian capital from 23 - 25 October.

    • Learnability and Employability Unlocking Africa’s Future Success

      eLearning Africa | Berlin (GER) / Abidjan (CI) |

      A large youthful population, disruptive innovative technology, and vibrant entrepreneurial activity hold the keys to unlocking Africa’s future success. It’s time to maximise their potential. Join the conversation in Abidjan this year at the Continent’s leading annual eLearning conference to enhance your capacity to contribute to this mission.

    • Learning and Training for Farming and Food: eLearning Africa Launches ‘Agriculture Track’

      eLearning Africa |

      The organisers of Africa’s leading conference on technology assisted learning and training, eLearning Africa, have announced that, for the first time, the event will include a special programme of seminars, discussions and debates about learning and training for Africa’s farming and food sector. The decision reflects the continuing importance of agriculture in African economies, together with new opportunities and challenges for African food producers in an era of rapid technological change.

    • Turning Talent into Skills and Skills into Success

      eLearning Africa | Germany / Côte d’Ivoire |

      As the African continent prepares for a period of profound change, with the launch of a drive to create a common free trade area, increasing exposure to global markets and technological innovation affecting every sector, this year’s eLearning Africa will ask some fundamental questions.

    • Africa’s Top Edtech Conference Issues Call for Papers

      eLearning Africa |

      The organisers of eLearning Africa, the continent’s leading conference and exhibition on learning, training and technology, have issued a ‘call for papers’ from anyone interested in presenting at this year’s event, which will be held in the Sofitel Abidjan Hotel Ivoire in Cote d’Ivoire from 23 - 25 October 2019.

    • Going West: Top Education Conference Heads for Côte d’Ivoire

      eLearning Africa | Berlin, Germany |

      Africa’s leading conference and exhibition on technology-assisted learning and training, eLearning Africa, will head to Côte d’Ivoire next year. Organisers have confirmed that the pan-African conference, which brings together education professionals, technology experts, entrepreneurs and investors for three days of networking, discussions, briefings and debates, will be held in the West African country’s capital city, Abidjan.

    • ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’: Africa’s Opportunity or a Catastrophe in Waiting?

      eLearning Africa | Germany, Rwanda |

      The world is heading towards a ‘fourth industrial revolution, according to technology experts. But is this good or bad news for Africans? Does it signify the approach of a new age of opportunity, in which Africa will leapfrog its competitors, or is it more likely to be a disaster in which jobs are lost, traditional industries are destroyed and Africa enters a new age of exploitation by western companies in control of frightening new technologies?

    • ‘Pure Inspiration’: Turning Dreams into Reality at eLA Conference on ‘Uniting Africa’

      eLearning Africa |

      Africa’s biggest conference on learning, training and technology, eLearning Africa, will take place in Rwanda this year. Among the keynote speakers at the event, which will be held, under the patronage of the Rwandan Government, in the Kigali Convention Centre from 26 – 28 September, will be some of the biggest names in global education and technology.

    • eLearning Africa: EdTech, Inspiration and African Unity

      eLearning Africa |

      One of Africa’s most inspirational and successful women will top the bill at this year’s eLearning Africa conference in Kigali, Rwanda. A medical doctor, an academic and a businesswoman, Dr Mamphela Ramphele is also the former leader of South Africa’s Agang SA political party and a founder, with her former partner Steve Biko, of the Black Consciousness movement. She heads an exciting list of keynote speakers in a fascinating programme of discussions, workshops and debates under the overall theme of ‘Uniting Africa.’

    • The African View of Silicon Valley

      eLearning Africa |

      What do Africans really think about the grandiose education projects, promoted by outsiders, that promise to transform their lives? In a special debate at this year’s eLearning Africa conference, we will find out.

    • ‘Learning in Context’: eLearning Africa programme announced

      eLearning Africa |

      Details of this year’s eLearning Africa conference, which will take place in Mauritius from September 27 - 29, have been announced, with a comprehensive programme of relevant events all linking under the theme ‘Learning in Context.’ The congress coincides with UNESCO’s International Day of Universal Access to Information.

    • Mauritian government to host eLearning Africa 2017

      eLearning Africa |

      The organisers of eLearning Africa, the continent’s leading conference on technology assisted learning and training, announced that the Government of Mauritius has agreed to host this year’s conference in September. The conference will be held under the patronage of the Minister of Technology, Communication and Innovation, Hon. Mr Yogida Sawmynaden and the Minister of Education, Human Resources, Tertiary Education and Scientific Research, Hon. Mrs Leela Devi Dookun-Luchoomun. It will take place in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, from the 27th to the 29th of September.

    • 2063 Vision: Ministers move from ideas to action

      eLearning Africa | Cairo, Egypt |

      African ministers attending the 9th eLearning Africa Ministerial Round Table in Cairo on May 24th are looking to turn dreams into reality. Education and training are at the heart of the African Union’s 2063 Vision for a ‘transformed continent’ and ministers of Education, Skills, Finance and ICT from all over Africa will discuss delivery mechanisms at the annual Round Table on ICT for education, training and development.

    • eLearning Africa: Sharing infrastructure must be top priority

      eLearning Africa | Cairo, Egypt |

      The African Union’s Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, HE Mrs Elham Mahmood Ahmed Ibrahim, will tell participants at this year’s eLearning Africa conference that sharing infrastructure must be a top priority for African governments.

    • Africa’s vision for education and how it will become reality

      eLearning Africa | Berlin, Germany |

      More than 1200 international education and technology experts, advisers and investors will gather in Cairo in May to discuss how to turn the African Union’s vision of a “transformed continent” into reality. They will look at how developments in technology could enable education and training to boost growth and transform the lives and prospects of the next generation of Africans. The programme for the conference, which is available at www.elearning-africa.com.

    • African financial services sector “missing a trick” say education experts

      eLearning Africa | Berlin |

      Africa’s financial services sector is missing out on big opportunities in the rapidly growing education technology market, say the organisers of the continent’s biggest EdTech conference. They claim that African banks and financial services companies are “missing a trick” by failing to get involved and back innovative start-ups in the education technology sector.

    • eLearning Africa 2016: Call for proposals

      eLearning Africa | Berlin |

      African education experts want to hear from anyone with innovative ideas about how technology can help transform the continent.

    • Report reveals opportunities slipping through Africa’s digital gender gap

      eLearning Africa |

      Findings from the eLearning Africa Report 2015, which is now available free to download, reveal that, despite rapid growth in internet and mobile usage across the region, women are much less likely to get online than men. And they are still largely unrepresented in the technology sector.

    • eLearning Africa Report: ICTs boosting growth but teachers reluctant to change

      eLearning Africa | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |

      Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the key to improving education and thus boosting growth across Africa – but there is still widespread reluctance among teachers, trainers and managers to abandon traditional methods in favour of new solutions.

    • eLearning Africa 2015: Ministers to discuss building on Africa’s progress in education

      eLearning Africa | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |

      As attention moves from the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), political leaders will join education experts and investors at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa later this month to discuss the role technology can play in building on Africa’s progress in education, training and development.

    • African leaders need to “leapfrog the shackles of convention” say experts

      eLearning Africa | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |

      International experts will call for African leaders to “leapfrog the shackles of convention” at a major education conference next month, in order to ensure that African economic growth is sustained by adequately trained young people. The programme for this year’s eLearning Africa, which is being co-organised by the African Union and co-hosted by the Government of Ethiopia, reflects the extraordinary breadth and pace of change underway in African education – and the challenge for new technology-based solutions to meet Africa’s growing demand for high quality education and training.

    • Focus on ICT for education in rural Africa

      eLearning Africa | Berlin |

      High-level presentations at eLearning Africa, Africa’s leading conference on technology for development and education, will focus on the role ICTs are playing in transforming the continent’s rural economies by improving access to information and training.

    • eLearning Africa 2015: call for proposals

      eLearning Africa |

      eLearning Africa 2015 is looking for the stories, experiences, research, thinking and expertise that make up the complex but thrilling picture of ICT for development, education and training in Africa today.

    • Enriching Tomorrow: eLearning Africa 2015 Returns to Ethiopia

      eLearning Africa | Ethiopia, Addis Ababa |

      Rebecca Stromeyer, CEO of ICWE GmbH and Founder of eLearning Africa, joined H.E. Dr Debretsion Gebremichael, with the rank of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Communication and Information Technology of Ethiopia, today (Wednesday) to announce that the annual eLearning Africa conference will return to Ethiopia, the country of its inauguration, for its tenth anniversary edition. The conference, which is the largest international event in Africa on ICT for education, training and development, will be held in Addis Ababa from May 20th – 22nd, under the patronage of the Ethiopian Government.

    • Report: Growing use of ICT in agriculture helping to 'transform Africa'

      eLearning Africa | Kampala, Uganda |

      An influential report on education, training and development in Africa shows that the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is beginning to have a significant impact on agriculture and may even be helping to make a reality of the African Union’s 2063 Vision of a “transformed continent”.

    • Africa unlocked

      eLearning Africa | Berlin/Kampala |

      The eLearning Africa Report 2014, launched by the His Excellency Edward Ssekandi, Vice President of the Republic of Uganda, is claiming that Africans working in education are overwhelmingly optimistic about the future.

    • Ugandan entrepreneurs changing lives with the touch of a button

      eLearning Africa | Berlin/Kampala |

      A spotlight will shine on the rising stars of Ugandan technology and education scene this year, as Kampala plays host to the eLearning Africa 2014 Conference later this month. A key focus will also be on those in the nation who don’t yet have the access and education allowing them to reach their potential.

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