capture data at district levels. Headmasters fill in school returns on hard copies which get sent to the District Education Manager who oversees the District data entry. Malawi's National ICT Policy includes the promotion of ICTs in education systems at all levels in order to improve both the access and the quality of education, improve management of education systems and improve ICT literacy. It also has a few innovative initiatives in this area, committed largely to the promotion of integrated library and information services and networks. SchoolNet Malawi and Computers for African Schools Malawi and other international NGOs have been active for the past decade in distributing recycled PCs to Schools. It incorporates academic and business representatives and is implemented with support from the British Council and Ministry of Education. It provides ICT training to teachers, computers and printers to schools and support for the development of the ICT Curriculum for schools. 3.9 The Pan African eNetwork An example of an e-Learning initiative is the Pan African eNetwork, a Tele education connectivity which enables 5 African regional leading universities including the University of Malawi (Chancellor College) to be connected to a hub through satellite to 53 remote virtual classes distributed in all the 53 countries. Seven universities from India are connected via IPLC to the Hub located in Africa. India hosts the Tele education LMS portal comprising the University Tele-Education delivery system software that incorporates the e-learning, content management KMS (knowledge Management System) and digital library solutions. This project provides eServices with a priority on tele-education and telemedicine in order to build capacity. The Government of India has established the eNetwork through 3 centres in Malawi eLearning at Chancellor College, Telemedicine at Kamuzu Central Hospital and e-VVIP at the State House. Free technical support which ends in December this year 2013, was provided for five years as part of the project. 30

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