African president urges common agreement on ICT strategies

President John Agyekum Kufuor on Monday urged African nations to agree on common Information Communication Technology (ICT) implementation strategies in Education, which must reflect on various core issues like education, development of sub-regional policy guidelines for effective partnership mechanism for cost-sharing, human resource development and optimisation of existing capacity in all areas of ICT use in education, an environment to reduce connectivity costs and supply of adequate band-with. The others are intensifying efforts to raise the quality of teacher professional development in formal and non-formal education, the use of relevant and context appropriate ICTs, especially interactive Radio Instruction for literacy and non-formal education. The New Partnership For Africa's Development (NEPAD) e-schools demonstration project at OLA Secondary Ho, in the Volta Region was also launched. President Kufuor said the project would be a catalyst to removing social and geographical barriers, while increasing access to information and quality education in which every teacher would have to enhance the teaching and learning process of his or her subject through ICT tools. The Executive Deputy Chairman of the NEPAD e-Africa Commission, Dr. Henry Chasia said the aim of the project is to install ICT in over 600,000 Primary and Secondary schools in Africa, which would be connected to the internet and to train millions of pre-service and in-service teachers in the use of information technology. More

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