African Ministers of Education together with high-level policy makers and industry leaders will get together and take account of the challenges, achievements and strategies in building national ICT infrastructures for education and in providing the human capacities and services to exploit them efficiently.

African policy-making executives will present the status of their national programmes, and strategies forward will be discussed among the key stakeholders from government and the private sector, both from the Continent and abroad.

The Round Table consists of three components:

1. The Ministers in charge will outline the national “ICT for Education” programmes of their respective countries, and each case will then be debated with regard to its national as well as its Pan-African relevance. The questions of “What works?” and “What are the perspectives?” will also be addressed.
2. The Ministers will present national “Best Practices in ICT-Enhanced Education and Training”, and the Round Table will nominate one initiative as the “African Educational ICT Landmark Project” of the year. The programme selected will receive support until the 2008 Round Table selects its successor project.
3. A document – the Nairobi Recommendation – circulated prior to the event, will be endorsed by the Round Table.

The aim of the annual “Round Table” is to establish a sustainable framework for a learning process between key African policy makers on their strategies, experiences and best practices in implementing their national ICT enhanced education programmes. The outcome of each year’s “Round Table” will be a set of recommendations, based on the ministerial deliberations, reflecting the status and perspectives of national African programmes on ICT-enhanced education and training.

[See the first announcement ]