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African Distance Learning/InfoTech and Computer Literacy Conference
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Tue Feb 3 20:48:35 1998
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 12:30:32 -0600
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Subject: African IT-Dist Lrng CONF May 20-22 Papers Presenters Moderators
Exhibitors
ANNOUNCEMENT by EduNet Academic Events & Conferences
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AFRICA - BRAZIL - CUBA
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Education & Science in the African Diaspora
If you have come here to help me,
you are wasting your time.....
But, if you have come because
your liberation is bound up with mine,
then let us work together.
-- Aboriginal Woman
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African Distance Learning/InfoTech
& Computer Literacy Conference
Accra, GHANA - May 20-22 1998
CALL FOR PAPERS, PRESENTERS, MODERATORS, EXHIBITORS
Deadline for abstracts: February 15
(may be submitted by E-mail)
Accepted abstracts will be posted on-line
Invited Presenters will be notified by March 15
Your invitation to participate:
A list has been set up for attendees, delegates,
volunteers & those involved with the staging &
fine-tuning of this Conference & wishing to explore
discount group-rate airfare
Please send a msg with "subscribe ghaclad-scope"
in the body to:
majordomo@igc.org
Conference goals, objectives & subthemes, and
registration procedure, can all be found at the Website:
http://www.ulbobo.com/gdep/
http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/african-diaspora/travels.html
Discount Airfare
ROUNDTRIP AIRFARE NY-GHANA: $750
If interested, communicate ASAP with Dr. Darkwa
Special discount group rates are now being finalized with various
airlines to enable delegates, volunteers, organizers
& interested others worldwide to attend; announcements about
progress & procedures will be posted to the Ghaclad-scope List.
Please join & stay tuned
On joining, pls "introduce" yourself to fellow participants
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Conference
Coordinator:
DR. OSEI DARKWA
Faculty, University of Illinois-Chicago
PH: 312-996-8508
E-Mail to both:
darkwa@tigger.cc.uic.edu
information_technology@juno.com
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OBJECTIVES OF THE CONFERENCE
a) To initiate a long-term effort to promote electronic
networking for economic and educational development in
Africa.
b) To examine the future of education in electronic
classrooms without walls
c) To explore the barriers to developing transnational
goals for infusing computer literacy into primary,
secondary, and tertiary education in Africa
d) To strengthen the capacity of grassroots organizations
and low income communities to initiate, choose, plan and
manage their own self help projects through computer
technology and info systems.
The Conference will also include:
-High-level IT strategy briefings that address
issues such as return on IT investment
-Discussion of aligning IT policy with business
objectives
-Discussion of doing business on the Internet
-Approaches to enhancing practical workshops for
technical staff
CALL FOR PRESENTERS
If you would like to participate as
a presenter at the Ghana Distance
Education Conference, you are invited
to submit a paper and proposal
application form. The focus of the
conference is "Use of Information
Technology (IT) to Enhance the Economic,
Social, Cultural, and Educational
Development of African Countries"
Individuals involved with the use of
technology and the planning and delivery
of distance education are invited
to share their ideas.
C O N F E R E N C E * S U B - T H E M E S
ST1: Instructional Use of Information Systems in Africa
ST2: Role of Internet Providers (ISP) in Africa
ST3: Community-Based Computing Services
ST4: Computer Literacy & Distance Education: Curse & Blessing
ST5: Computer Security Issues, Concepts & Resources
ST6: Telecottages & Software Development in Africa
ST7: Social Implications of Information Technology in Africa
ST8: Application of Information Systems in Government
& Businesses
ST9: Technology in Developing Countries: Dividing or Uniting
ST10: Age & Gender Issues in the Use of Information
Systems in Africa
ST11: The Use of Digital Library Resources in Education,
Science & Technology
ST12: Ethical Norms in the Development & Use of New Information &
Communication Technologies
ST13: How To Create a Distance Learning Course & How to
Make it Work
ST14: Conventional vs Distance Learning: Perspectives from
Faculty & Students--Benefits, Dilemmas, Questions
ST15: Linking Classrooms Between the North & the South
Through Distance Learning: Curriculum
Construction & Cost-Sharing
S16: Distance Learning & Academic Freedom in Africa/Linking
with Africa via Distance Learing: A View
from Historically Black Colleges & Universities
Deadline for submission is February 15, 1998. All
submissions will be carefully reviewed: presenters
will be notified of acceptance by March 15, 1998.
Paper may be submitted in hard copy or by electronic mail.
Refer to proposal guidelines: http://www.ulbobo.com/gdep
ANNOUNCEMENT by
EduNet Academic Events and Conferences
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