Meeting of DelPHE ICT4D Network in HEIs, London,UK
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!