Is there any future for development in ICT without Education reform in Africa?

[Aghatise Ehis Joseph]

We discuss ICT development without looking at the fundamentals. Nigeria educational system according to most experts, has a 'negative slope'. This statement simply means, the system is not functional and graduates from the system can not do anything good with the knowledge they acquire. Would it be possible for us to have positive development in ICT under our present system of education? Can we expect new wine from an old bottle? Share your views.

[Victor Oluremi Adedoyin, MPM, MTM]

In Nigeria, the persistent anti-intellectualism of those in power has intensified the broader crisis that engulfed the higher education sector.

What lessons are there for higher education reform in Nigeria?

Firstly, successful countries show strong commitment to education as a public good and tend to invest heavily in their higher education sector, especially in endogenous research and development. The second point is that experiments with the commodity approach in both its provisioning of skilled human resources and internal relations have proved to be counter-productive. Thirdly, in situations of prolonged decline and decay, what needs rebuilding is more than just the infrastructure but also the ethos and ethics of academia.

[James Agada]

What does development in ICT mean? Will companies in Nigeria continue to deploy ICT with or without any change in educational system? Obviously yes. Will Nigeria suddenly become a producer of technologies? Not likely. But then it is not only the education system that will hamper this . power, security, infrastructure are also significant hurdles.

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[Pavi Ratnakar]

Hello Aghatise,

Very pertinent post. But it is true in Africa as anywhere else. ICT, specially telecoms is evolving fast and the need to relook at ICT education is critical for both enterprises and academia.

I would like to think of ICT education as the most important ICT infrastructure , a country should first invest in while planning for ICT development.

regards
Pavi Ratnakar

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[Aghatise Ehis Joseph]

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[Richard Close]

Absolutely there is a chance and it is already happening. Do not be discouraged or wait. Africa is smart enough to train its own people. Web learning is a very powerful tool that is available to anyone.

Most of what you have learned came from searching for a piece of information from your community and now on the Internet. Only a tiny fraction came from a course. African's can already bypassing the educational system by setting up things like agricultural, health and micro economic Nings. If we can build entire learning communities for free what are we waiting for.

There are over 200,000 education free web sites that can apply to K-12 lesson. And there are companies that can show you how to harness that intelligence for the smallest of African classroom for very little funds

When Google Wave comes out entire multilingual lessons will be created by any teacher anywhere in Africa. Why wait for Governments or NGOs?

You can learn how to do this at http://globallearningframework.ning.com There is a free 1.5 hour course on The Global Learning Framework that you may need extra bandwith to view. If you are a school or ICT send me your address and I will send a DVD version of the course The Global Learning Framework.

You can get a look at how Internet learning is different at: http://globallearningframework.ning.com/profiles/blogs/how-to-integ...

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CEO
Chrysalis Campaign