eLearning Africa Launches Scholarship Trust

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:50 PM, eLearning Africa

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> *Raising funds to enable African education professionals to benefit from
> the networks and resources of the largest annual pan-African conference on
> ICT-supported learning*
>
> eLearning Africa launched the Scholarship Trust EAST, a not for profit
> organisation designed to enhance knowledge sharing and to promote awareness
> of the benefits of technology-assisted learning and training across Africa.
> eLearning Africa is the largest pan-African conference on Information and
> Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development, Education and Training.
>
> EAST builds on the previous eLearning Africa bursary programme. It offers
> scholarships to low-income, disadvantaged education professionals to help
> them take advantage of the networks, resources and conferences of eLearning
> Africa.
>
> Participation in Africa's premier eLearning event will ensure that
> educators, practitioners and researchers across the continent become part of
> the innovation process, enabling them to pass on useful knowledge to their
> own communities.
>
> "eLearning Africa gave me the much appreciated opportunity to network and
> to disseminate the information I had gathered, allowing me to gauge our
> development against regional and international parameters," said Karen
> Ferreira-Meyers from the University of Swaziland, who participated in
> eLearning Africa in Lusaka in May 2010 through a bursary programme.
>
> "With one of the largest populations of young people in the world,
> education is at the heart of Africa's future. eLearning and access to
> information are vital," says Rebecca Stromeyer, eLearning Africa organiser
> and founder of the EAST organisation. "EAST will help to raise awareness of
> the benefits of technology-enhanced learning on the continent and contribute
> to the development of new initiatives."
>
> "History has it that eLearning Africa has been a success," says Charles
> Senkondo, Executive Director of the Tanzania Global Development Learning
> Centre (TGDLN), who is involved in organising eLearing Africa 2011 in
> Tanzania. "Since its inception in 2006, the conference has constantly built
> up and linked a worldwide network of decision-makers from governments and
> administrations with education practitioners from public and private
> education institutions, industry and important partners in development
> cooperation. It is this unique community of practice which enables us to
> spread the benefits of ICT-enhanced education across the African continent."
>
> EAST seeks the assistance and partnership of like-minded foundations,
> corporations and international organisations for the following programmes:
> The Practitioners Scholarship Programme, The Expert Scholarship Programme,
> The Mentorship Programme and The Africa eContent Awards.
>
> To find out how to support EAST please visit www.easttrust.org or contact
> us via email at ***@***.***
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