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From: "Andy Mensah" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:36 AM
Subject: [unioNews] Nepad unveils computer literacy plan for continent
Wednesday, November 5, 2003
<H3>Nepad unveils computer literacy plan for continent</H3>
By NATION Reporter
All students completing secondary school by 2008 will be required to
be computer literate, according to a Nepad plan Kenya has committed
itself to.
They will be followed by primary school leavers five years later in
2012 if the New Partnership for Africa's Development e-schools
initiative succeeds.
Prof Peter Kinyanjui, the Nepad programme coordinator, said yesterday
the schools initiative, which would eventually serve the entire
African continent, would require sufficiently trained teachers in
information and communication technology (ICT).
And Education minister George Saitoti said the Government planned to
conduct an ICT in-service training for 43,000 teachers during the
implementation of an ICT plan to last between 2002 and 2008.
Prof Saitoti, speaking when he opened a workshop on teacher training
in Nairobi, said Kenya planned to make 2,500 primary and secondary
schools "ICT-ready" annually.
Most of them would be reached through mobile units, he said. "The
Government will facilitate the development and review of ICT
curriculum at primary, secondary and tertiary levels."
The Education Management Information Systems, he said, would be
upgraded to enhance efficiency in the provision of education.
Prof Saitoti said 22 strategic institutions had been linked to a
network through the Kenya Education Network (Kenet), a partnership
between the governments of Kenya and the United States.
Kenya expects to reach the goal of universal ICT literacy by 2008 in
line with the Nepad e-schools initiative.
The initiative, to come in three phases, will connect more than half
of Africa's primary and secondary schools to the Internet.
Kenya is among the first 18 countries which have signed for the first
phase.
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