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.
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