The SNA Experience

Shafika Isaacs

Executive Director

SchoolNet Africa

s.isaacs@schoolnetafrica.org

www.schoolnetafrica.net

About SchoolNet Africa

African-led Non Government Organisation

Network of schoolnet organisations, practitioners, education policymakers, teachers and learners in 35 African countries

Promote learning and teaching through use of ICTs

About SNA

Areas of Intervention through pan African programs

AWARENESS RAISING

ACCESS: Campaign for 1 Million PCs

CAPACITY BUILDING: African Teachers Network; Networking African Teacher Training Colleges, African SchoolNet Trainig Program

AFRICAN EDUCATION CONTENT: ThinkQuest Africa, Knowledge Warehouse and Global Teenager Project

African Education Knowledge Warehouse

Multi-lingual education portal

Arabic

English

French

Portuguese

GTP in Spanish

User-base: African learners, teachers, education policymakers, schoolnet practitioners

Organised in User-based Centres:

Learners Centre

Teachers Centre

Policy Centre

SchoolNet Centre

Gender Watch and Innovation Watch

African Education Knowledge Warehouse

Promoting African users as producers of information and knowledge through projects such as

ThinkQuest Africa

Global Teenager Project

African Teachers Network

The Femail Face of African SchoolNets

Proposed Partnership with Creative Commons SA

Education Alliance

Awareness raising on Creative Commons in African network

Participation in Access to Knowledge Campaign

Integration of IPR issues in evolving African schoolnet knowledge warehouse

Capacity building among network of schoolnet practitioners and policymakers in Africa – integration in our existing program

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

Shafika Isaacs

Executive Director

SchoolNet Africa

s.isaacs@schoolnetafrica.org

www.schoolnetafrica.net

Building ICT Skills among Out of School Youth

ROSA

2001-07-30T15:33:52

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