The 2008 eLearning Africa’s International Conference on ICT for Development, Education, and Training is scheduled for May 28 – 30, and will be held in Accra, Ghana, under the patronage of the Ghanaian Ministry of Education, Science, and Sports.  This event stands to become one of the premier international educational and networking events for e-learning professionals from around the world.   

In only its second year, the 2007 event (held in May in Nairobi) attracted more than 1400 delegates from around the world.  Approximately 72% of the delegates were from Africa, and the others traveled to Kenya from more than 88 countries, representing every continent.  Attendees included high-level professionals and decision makers from the education, business, and government sectors.  There were also 43 exhibitors from eight different countries.  

Conference highlights from both 2006 and 2007 are available for download as pdf files at eLearning Africa’s website. You can also subscribe to eLearning Africa’s newsletter and register to receive e-mail updates about the 2008 conference in Ghana. Make your plans to attend the 2008 event early, particularly if you are interested in vendor space.  Exhibitor spaces for the 2007 conference were sold out several months before the event. 

Sponsors for the 2007 conference included Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Nokia, Oracle, Detecon Consulting, Intelsat, SPIDER (the Swedish program for ICT in Developing Regions, the African Development Bank, the Ford Foundation, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Capacity Building, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the European Commission Directorate General – Information Society and Media, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the MacArthur Foundation, the Rockerfeller Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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