AEKW is a pan-African education portal which services African School Net practitioners, policymakers and school-based communities on ICTs in education across Africa.
The Schoolnet Centre: SchoolNet Africa is dedicated to providing schoolnet practitioners in Africa with value-added information and a range of resources in support to the use of ICTs in Education initiatives at local level. We have developed this African SchoolNet Centre to provide information and resources for African schoolnet practitioners to enhance the implementation efforts. The African SchoolNet Centre collects and houses information on national schoolnets in Africa and globally and provides space for networking and collaboration among schoolnet practitioners. By working together, we can collectively consolidate our efforts, harness the knowledge and skills at our disposal and celebrate our victories. For more information, email us.
See also: SchoolNet Africa’s Flagship Programs.
Our Organisation: SchoolNet Africa is one of Africa’s first African-led, African-based non-government organisations (NGO) that operates across the continent in its endeavour to improve education access, quality and efficiency through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in African schools. SchoolNet Africa works mainly with learners, teachers, policymakers and practitioners through country-based schoolnet organisations across Africa. SchoolNet Africa is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa where it employs staff from different African countries to manage its programs.
Our Vision: SchoolNet Africa’s vision is for the empowerment of all of Africa’s children and youth through access to quality education, information and knowledge on the basis of their effective use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).
Our Mission: SchoolNet Africa’s mission is to support national SchoolNets throughout Africa by mobilizing resources, building effective partnerships and knowledge in promoting education through sustainable use of ICTs in African schools.
What We Stand For: SNA stands for the right of all African youth to education and lifelong learning possibilities. Also for the right of every African child to have access to information, for affordable and sustainable access to ICTs in African Schools. Also for African education content on the Internet. And we work towards developing online content in local languages.
SchoolNet Africa supports and promotes:
- the right of every African child to have access to education, information and knowledge;
- affordable and sustainable ICT access for African schools using a variety of solutions;
- the creation of locally developed, digitised education content;
- expression through the recognition of indigenous African languages;
- multi-stakeholder partnerships within a progressive, development framework;
- gender integration and women’s empowerment;
- the achievement of the Education For All objectives and the UN Millenium Development Goals.