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The meeting at the Royal Holloway University of London, UK ended well. Have also returned home safely.

Some follow up activities are planned including members of the network organising a workshop at the eLearning Africa, Ghana in May 2008. Preceding this, members of the network plan to organise some pre-conference activities.

These activities include:

1. A one-day Seminar on the 27th May, 2008 at the University of Education, Winneba (www.uew.edu.gh) . This will present reports of a group research to be carried out in Kenya, Ghana, Mozambique and the UK on the Public-Private Partnerships in ICT4D. It will attempt to take a look at the extent of involvement of the private sector institutions in ICT4D in these countries.

2. Another one-day parallel workshop (same 27th May, 2008) on the development and uploading of online educational resources will be held at the Winneba Open Digital Village (www.opendigitalvillage.org) in Winneba.. With this in mind, we intend to have discussions with the FLOSS4EDU Inintiative (www.wikieducator.org/FLOSS4Edu) and WikiEducator (www.wikieducator.org) Project team both supported by the Commonwealth of Learning, Canada (www.col.org); and oneVillage Foundation-Ghana Management to provide some form of support for the training session.

When more of this is formalised, we will make them available on the partnership website - http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/ict4d/delphe.html - and on the events page of the Simap Open Summits site here - http://www.simpasummits.net/eventsmain.php.

Thanks.

A year ago, the Development Partnership for Higher Education programme of the UK begun support for an ICT4D Network of Higher Educational Institutions. This 3-year programme comprise staff of the:
University of Education, Winneba (Ghana) 
Universidade Eduardo Modlane (Mozambique)
Maseno University (Kenya)
Universite Cheikh Anta Diop (Sengal) and
UNESCO Center for ICT4D at Royal Holloway University of London, UK. 
Please see: http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/ict4d/

The partnership has a collabotative research agenda - and in the past year was in Kenya to organise a workshop during the eLearning Africa Workshop under the title “ICT4D in African HEIs”. Details here: http://www.elearning-africa.com/review_2007_workshops.php

From Dec 1 - 9, 2007, members of the partnership (of which I am a part) are at the Royal Holloway University of London, UK further organise some workshops, fine tune the reasearch agenda for the coming year (2008) and plan workshops for the eLearning Africa 2008 in Accra,Ghana. So far, there will a full day workshop and a public lecture in the Univ. of Educatio, Winneba and two workshops at the main conference. Results from our research is likely to be made available. Though these sessions are yet to be confirmed as a team and with the eLA 2008 organisors, our deliberation here in the UK shows commitment to the effort.

I am learning, meeting new faces and making new friends. The sessions here are enlightening!