The problem that exists in the Cameroonian education system especially in elementary and secondary education is the problem of quality teaching and that of quality learning. The basic problems in the elementary schools are related to language skills acquisition. Such skills include inability to write, spell, speak and understand. The writer has taught in secondary schools and in the teacher training college for close to 12 years and attests to the fact that students on entry to secondary school class cannot

With gratitude to bytesforall, I learned today about this very meaningful appeal to keep the One Laptop Per Child project on course as a force for freedom in the world, by Richard Stallman, described on Wikipedia as "an American software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer." I've been following this issue personally, and while I'm not quite as activist a promoter of open source software as RMS, I was crushed when I learned a few weeks ago about Negroponte's plans for Windows on the device.

The Human Rights and Justice Group International (Kabissa profile) entry "Campaign Against Cyber Crime (CAC)" was selected as finalist under economic development for the Stockholm Challenge Award 2008.

The finalists have been selected from the excellent collection of ICT projects that have competed for the Stockholm Challenge 2008 six category awards and all are invited to come to Stockholm to participate in all parts of the event, show their work and meet with peers and many others who devote their time, skills and interest to ICT for development.

We look forward to winning the final trouphy which I believe will take our Cyber Crime Project and ICT projects to a new level.

Read on for the full description of the Campaign Against Cyber Crime Project from the Stockholm Challenge Website.

Digiactive  provides a range of tools you can use for digital activism, advocacy, campaigning and documentation by tracking examples of their use from around the world.   For example the site below was created by a group of students to campaign against corruption in Azebaijan.  The tools they used were:

Website, petition, digital photographs, discussion board

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Free Software and Open Source tools you can download or use online to help with information graphics.

 

OpenOffice is an office productivity suite. It includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager and drawing program. OpenOffice also works with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office and open formats such as .odt. OpenOffice runs on Linux and Windows and on Mac OS X under X11.

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Trainers Pod is a distributed consultancy which provides education and training support for developing countries.

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Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students.

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A networking support programme to enable South African women to access the internet to find people, resources and tools for activism

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Tactical Tech's NGO-in-a-box project is a series of innovative toolkits designed to meet the specialised technology needs of non-profit organisations such as NGOs, activists, independent journalists and community groups. As the name suggests, each toolkit is a box containing: * CDs containing specifically selected Free and Open Source Software * easy-to-use tutorials * hands-on guides * informative case studies

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I attended a two hour Webinar this afternoon - one of 90 attendees from across the world. Really quite amazing to think that so many people from different countries and timezones were communicating and learning all at the same time. An open source programme "Ellumuniate" was used to facilitate the Webinar. We were able to ask questions via voice or text, chat with each other, raise our hands, clap, take notes and at the end either print or save the whole presentation.

The topic was MOODLE, also an open source eLearning or to use the technical name "Course Management System".

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students. This site itself is created using Moodle, so check out the Moodle Demonstration Courses or read the latest Moodle Buzz