Conference to discuss digital divide

Educators and government ministers from throughout Africa will gather in Dakar, Senegal for Africa's principal conference on educational technology, states.

At the conference, NComputing CEO Stephen Dukker's keynote address will explore how African nations are bridging the digital divide using low-cost shared computing technology.

The eLearning Africa conference, to be held from 27 to 29 May this year, gathers ministers of education, senior government leaders, non-governmental organisations, school and university educators, developmental agencies, and key business executives.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), has initiated Sparx 2009, a partner training programme covering 10 cities across India, reports Silicon India.

This year's partners training programme will train more than 2 000 system integrators, resellers and retailers who promote AMD platforms, including processors, graphics solutions and chipsets.

Sparx 2009 will familiarise partners on AMD's products and technologies and is aimed at equipping partners with the right skills to enhance their productivity and profitability.

The Royal Naval Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering at HMS Sultan in Portsmouth, UK, has selected Luminosity as its new collaborative e-learning course creation platform, says Public Technology.

The College has previously focused on instructor-led training, but is using Luminosity to enable it to move to a curriculum which blends the best of e-learning and instructor-led training to increase the effectiveness of the overall training approach.

The e-learning courses produced will be deployed to the Defence Learning Portal for use by UK service personnel worldwide.