The second International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training will take place in Nairobi, Kenya next year. The conference will run from 28 to 30 May 2007, under the patronage of the Kenyan minister of education, science and technology, Dr Noah Wekesa.
According to a statement issued by e-Learning Africa, the conference will bring together African high-level policy makers and industry leaders, as well as R&D experts and practitioners with their counterparts from Asia, America, and Europe.
Participants are expected to take account of the challenges, achievements, and the strategies forward in discussing trans-continental co-operation schemes for Africa.
The first e-Learning Africa conference was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia earlier this year and was attended by more than 800 participants from over 70 countries.
Consistent with the 2007 theme, "Building infrastructures and capacities to reach out to the whole of Africa", the event itself will reach out beyond the conference centre and will feature large-scale lectures in Kenyan universities, addressing both fundamentals as well as R&D topics in technology-enhanced education and training.
In addition there will be two break-out workshops addressing the needs in rural areas and regional institutions: one in Mombassa on the Indian Ocean and one in Kisumu on Lake Victoria.
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