The eBrain Forum of Zambia would like to see the Zambian education system improve to a level where access to education will no longer be limited by distance and fewer places in Schools, Colleges and Universities.
In an interview with eBrain Chairperson, Lee Muzala said the eBrain Forum of Zambia’s mission was to contribute to the improvement of quality of life through promoting the use of information communication technologies (ICTs) for purposes of development by raising awareness, conducting monthly meetings, baseline surveys, research as well as building capacity among members.
Explaining their role in the eLearning Africa Conference, Muzala said eBrain Forum of Zambia had representation on the eLearning Africa 2010 Organising Committee, and was playing a key role in ensuring that Zambia was prepared to host the event.
“We have also managed to bring on board our funders who will be supporting the preparations by providing and paying for Coordinating Officer as well as paying for a survey to measure the extent of eLearning usage in Zambia,” explained Muzala.
He added that eBrain together with their cooperating partners, the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) will be exhibiting at the conference, and that they have several members that will make presentations during the conference, as well as chair some of the parallel sessions.
He explained that the eBrain Forum willl also be having a special event called “Teachers Forum”, on the pre-conference day, which will enable around 50 pre-service and in-service teachers to share their experiences of using ICT in the classroom. Some will be familiar with ICT in the classroom, others will have little or no experience of ICT.
The goal is to allow Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and teachers to showcase a wide range of tried-and-tested ICT initiatives and tools. This will be done in an informal ‘Market Place’ environment with a view to inspire teachers to replicate similar activities in their own schools, where possible. IICD and the eBrain Forum of Zambia are co-organising this half-day event, which includes space for an interactive discussion and presentations.
Muzala noted that hosting the conference brings with it, its own benefits as pointing out that it will allow local firms, teachers, schools heads, government officials and other interested parties to see technologies being applied in the area of eLearning through the various organisations that will be exhibiting. He said hosting the eLearning Africa event in Zambia will also help give insight to the country as to cases of eLearning in other countries.
He looked at eLearning not look at eLearning as a technology but a process that is there to help students learn even better and differently.
“I would like to believe that eLearning brings with it several benefits such as reducing some of the costs associated with education if implemented correctly. He said it also allows schools to educate people they could not previously like those working for a living and those people who are geographically dispersed and many other kinds of people.
Muzala also added that studies have shown that students who would not raise a hand in class will be very active in posting to discussion boards showing that they communicate better in a web based environment than in the traditional classroom.
Meanwhile, Muzala who is also Managing Director of Trio Consult/Global Teenager Project (GTP) will be part of a discussion panel to discuss issues of content generated during GTP activities and how best they can be packaged and re-used by other students as referal materials. They will also be looking at the benefits of adopting the concept of Learning Circles used as the core activity of GTP, and how they can be used locally to enable learning among Zambian students.
Senior Reporter and Head of Information and Communications Technology
(ICT) desk at Champion Newspapers Limited, Lagos-Nigeria has bagged
the first-ever African Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Reporter’s
award.
Recieving the award which was the first of its kind by the Free and Open Source
Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) and Digital Commons,Remmy said that there was need for Journalists to report on FOSS issues for the development of the African software industry.
The award was presented to him in Accra, Tuesday night, at the weeklong 4TH Idlelo conference organized by FOSSFA, Digital Commons and Deutsche Welle, colourful dinner hosted at the Council of State House, Accra.
Speaking at the ceremony, chairperson, FOSSFA, Nnenna Nwakanma
noted that the award was open to Africans living on the continent,
authors of articles or broadcasts that were published or aired in the
last two years.
Winning entries, she pointed out was an article described as valuable
to an African audience, which showed clarity in communication and
significantly disclosing, explaining, interpreting and reporting the
impact of FOSS on the development of Africa and recognizing
newsworthiness thereof.
Therefore, she said that Nweke’s piece on ‘Open Source as a business
solution’ meant the aforementioned criterion based on the juries
declaration and therefore, was pronounced the best.
She also promised that FOSSFA would continue to support African media
practitioners, even as she solicited for more reportage in African
media.
Nweke is not new to professional recognitions as he had in the
past won the Siemens African Profile Award for 2004 and 2005; thus
becoming the first Nigerian to win such award on excellence in science
and technology reporting twice in addition to a merit awarded him in
2008.
He is also a Highway Africa News Agency (HANA) journalist recently rebranded based at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, where he won the second prize in Local Content Application category at the African Information Society Initiative (AISI) awards in 2005 organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
(ECA) based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
In 2006, Nweke was honoured with the Hewlett Packard (HP) Nigeria’s
top prize for Nigerian ICT journalists in technology reporting,
whereas he was the first runner up in the Nigerian IT & Telecom Awards
print category.
Currently, a Master of Arts student of University of Malta in
Contemporary Diplomacy, Nweke was at the Global Knowledge Partnership
(GKP-07) in Malaysia, where he took the second prize in ICT Research
and Innovations category of AISI.
While at the 10th Highway Africa conference-06, he was adjudged the
SABC-HANA Journalist of the Year in recognition and promotion of
creative, innovative and appropriate use of new media technology on
the continent, even as he emerged the Publicity Secretary, Nigeria
Internet Group (NIG) a not-profit organisation.
A founding member of the Joint Action Committee on ICT Awareness
(JACITAD) and focal point for the African ICTMedia for Nigeria,
Nweke, last year was nominated into the International WHO’S WHO of
Professionals in 2009 Edition.
Nweke is also a member of the New Media team a Live Blogging African team English content creator.
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