Internet access in Africa

juni 8th, 2009

Should Africa wait for someone to give high-speed Internet access or should individual countries find solutions depending on their own preferences and needs? This is discussed in an article from sociolingo.com who deals with interesting solutions.

Now there is a demand growing that the G8 leaders, who meet in July, should support high-speed web access in Africa particularly for Universities. At the same time some philanthropists and entrepreneurs are finding ways to bring internet access to remote communities. In Tunisia (a country not known for internet freedom) high tech buses provide web access to remote villages, and in Rwanda an American millionaire is developing one of the world’s most modern networks to give web access to all Rwandans.

Read the whole article

And what will we do when we have the ICT infrastructure?

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Sharing is Caring!

juni 7th, 2009

What is social media and how can it change the world?

social_media

A wordle summary of the article “10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media”

What is Social Learning?

From the Social Media Consultant Jane Hart.

Social Media and Journalism – a practical example and implementation

From MKFC Stockholm College on Slideshare
Follow us on twitter

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ENO Tree planting day in Al-Baraka Schools

maj 24th, 2009

This Friday on the 22:th of May it was “Environmental Online (ENO) Tree planting day”. ENOs vision is to have 100 million trees planted in 2017. In Al-Baraka Schools in Somaliland were we are running Teacher Training in Service pupils, students, teachers, head teachers and others planted 50 trees.

Al Baraka Eno tree planting

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Abdi Mukhtaar Ismail who is a teacher at the school and has taken the pictures tell us about the day

we have planted these trees in secondary school and intermediate school in Al-Baraka schools. The story about day that we want to change our environment to the better with an ever green surrounding. We want our students to learn to take care about the environment everywhere such us home, school, street and we want to encourage them to be more careful about our environment.

Read more about the ENO network here

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Follow MKFC on Twitter

maj 18th, 2009

We have been on twitter for a couple of days and trying to find best ways of using it in or Educations, here is a link about “Twittering In An Educational Setting.”

Follow us on twitter.com/mkfc .

We have some MKFC courses and teachers on twitter as well
Prisma – Art Course
Environment and Sustainable Development Course
Alamdar Khan, Tutor Pakistan
Stefan Woldekidan, Tutor Eastern Africa Studies

Kodwo Boateng, our partner in Ghana

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MKFC Stockholm College is proud to support this years eLearning conference in Senegal

maj 15th, 2009

MKFC Stockholm College participates in this year eLearning Africa conference in Dakar, 27-29 May. MKFC are committed to foster Learners to make the best performance. Our passion for eLearning lays on eLearning plattform (LMS) OPIT WSOY .fi and forums for social media. eLearners share experiences and achieve results thanks to dedication and diversity of our eTeachers and eExperts.

MKFC in two presentations
On the 27:th we participate and present our Mobile Learning at the pre workshop together with Mid Sweden University, The Open University of Tanzani and Örebro University.

On Friday the 29:th we will present our End-to-End eLearning™ Model and learning projects together with representatives from our Teacher Training programme in Somalia, the Community Action Plan (CAP) project in Ghana and e-Journalism and Social Media at the Ghana Institute of Journalism.

Performance Forward!

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Africa Gathering

maj 11th, 2009

Africa Gathering was held this year in London on Saturday 25th April,

Africa Gathering is a day for thinkers, supporters, sponsors, doers, geeks, dreamers – and everybody else to come and share, promote, highlight, progress and evolve issues related to ICT, social networking and technology in Africa.

Unfortunately we couldn’t be there but it’s a great coverage on their own web site and London International Development Centre (LIDC) has written a good summary.

Why is Africa Gathering important?
Africa Gathering is important, because it brings all those that care about technological advancement in Africa together in one place for the first time. It’s important because together we are stronger, we can share those ideas and we can help one another develop them. It’s important because technological change will come to Africa regardless and we can either be part of shaping, developing and advancing that, or we can be left out – all that talent and passion to help going to waste.

Tim Unwin opens London Africa Gathering from Jonathan Marks on Vimeo.

I can only agree with that!

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Microcredit’s for Community Action Plans

maj 5th, 2009

Our Ghanian partner Kwabena Obiri-Maino has taking further training in microcredit’s for his Community Action Plan programme in Ghana.

The program was to learn more about micro- finance/ micro-credit, and how to implement the process into these projects that are currently at hand, Kwabena says.

Kwabena will present his his work at eLearning Africa this year in Senegal. If you are there you can ask him questions about community action development, sustanible development and other microfinance question. If you won’t participate in the conference, comment the blog and we will let Kwabena answer the questions.

There is much to learn about micro- finance, even here in Ghana, the government has come to the realization that it is a way to reduce poverty in poverty ridden communities; if the people are taught and trained well to use to their betterment, Kwabena says.

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Ethiopia makes remarkable achievements in utilizing ICT

maj 4th, 2009

Ethiopia seems to be a predecessor for ICT progress in African Countries says United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

Ethiopia has registered remarkable achievements in utilizing information and communication technology (ICT) for various purposes while ensuring its cultural identity and diversity, a report of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN/ECA) shows.

The report, which comprises status of ICT utilization in 12 African countries, indicated that Ethiopia has been creating an ‘informed community’ through introducing e-employment, e-environment, e-agriculture, e-health, and e-science.

From Africa Science News who are writing about the report

Unfortunately the emphasis is not on e-learning but take a look at EDLA Ethiopian Distance Learning Association for more information and links.

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And of course e-learning Africa was held in Addis Ababa in 2006

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Report about the role of ICT for a rural village in Ghana

april 28th, 2009

This the final report of the educational research Project Understandings of Education in an African Village: the Impact of Information and Communication Technologies funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The project was a case study centred on one village and involving collaboration between researchers from Africa and Europe using participatory and ethnographic methods. It investigated students’, teachers’, parents’ and other community members’ understandings of schooling in a rural village in Ghana (‘Akurase’). It was also concerned with the impact of technological change on these understandings and the implications that this might have for development initiatives.

Read the whole report here

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One hour with Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography

april 28th, 2009

Dr. Michael Wesch is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography at the Kansas State University.

“Dubbed ”the explainer” by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the impact of new media on society and culture.
After two years studying the impact of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society. His videos on technology, education, and information have been viewed by millions, translated in over ten languages, and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide”.

It’s very interesting to see Michael Wesch transform the way we think about the classroom and how limited it is when it comes to learning. Our school has done a similar travel but unlike Dr. Wesch we are a full e-learning school with students working in authentic environments supported with net communities all over the world. Anyhow, its really fascinating listen to Michaels thought and see his practical ICT-work in the classroom, even tough it’s over one hour . Don’t forget to see the rest of his movies made by him and his students.

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