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MALAWI MISSES FROM NEPAD E-SCHOOLS INITIATIVE.
Related to country: Malawi

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Malawi is not among the African countries whose primary and secondary schools will be equipped with International communication Technology (ICT) funded under the New Partnership for Africa’s Development electronic Schools (NEPAD e-schools) Initiative because of its poor ICT status.
The NEPAD school initiative was publicly launched in Durban at the Africa Summit of the World Economic. Forum on June 12, 2003 with the aim of imparting ICT skills to young Africans in primary and secondary schools as well as harness ICT technology to improve, enrich and expand education in African countries.
The NEPAD e-Schools initiative will over a 10 –years period develop all African primary and secondary schools so that they become NEPAD e-schools.
Deputy minister of Education , Science and Technology Olive Masanza said the ministry is not part of the NEPAD programme because of various problems but was quick to add that it was her ministry’s wish to catch up with NEPAD.
What the ministry has done, said Masanza, is to launch internet learning in 17 selected secondary schools.
The ministry has provided computers to such schools.
Minister of Information Patricia Kaliati said “Malawi cannot benefit from the ICT bodies because of the ICT policy.”
The country developed a National ICT for Development policy in 2006 but it is not yet implement.
“We are going to take it to the Cabinet. In fact, we are fighting against time. We cannot have ICT infrastructure without the policy in place,” Kaliati said,.
The countries invited to participate in the first phase of the NEPAD e-schools initiative are those which have acceded to the Memorandum of understanding of the NEPAD Africa Pear Review Mechanism (APRM).
These countries include Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameron, Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda.
According to NEPAD e-Schools initiative details, 600,000 schools will be involved.
The initiative seeks to provide ICT skills and knowledge to primary and secondary school students that will enable them to function in the emerging information society and knowledge economy.
It is also aims to provide teachers with ICT skills to enable them to use ICT tools to enhance teaching and learning. It also wants to provide schools managers with ICT skills so as to facilitate the efficient management and administration of the schools.
Before rolling out the initiative, NEPAD e-Africa Commission is conducting a demonstration in six Schools in each of the following participating countries: Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda.
Each school in the demonstration project is equipped with a computer laboratory containing at least 20 PCs as well as server and net working Infrastructure and peripherals such as scanners, whiteboards and printers,
“The Implementation of the Demo in the rest of participating countries will be completed by December 2007,” details say.
According to NEPAD documents Implementation of all activities are expected to converge into large –scale roll out in 2007/2008.

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