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is establishing, monitoring and evaluating six NEPAD e-Schools
each, in up to twenty African countries.
The NEPAD e-Africa Commission has put together an innova-
tive public-private partnership to ensure the most effective and
expedient implementation of the Demo:
Country governments
– While coordination of the Demo takes
place at a continental level, implementation is carried out at a
national level. Each participating country has formally appointed
a Country Liaison Person (CLP), who is responsible for facili-
tating all aspects of implementation at the selected schools. The
CLPs are assisted by an interdepartmental National
Implementation Team, and work closely with the principals of
participating schools.
Private Sector
– The following consortia led by HP, Microsoft,
Oracle and Cisco, are each responsible for providing, deploying
and operating an appropriate education and health ICT solution
for approximately twenty schools at their own cost:
Development Partners
– The partnership has been further
strengthened by the support and contribution of a number of
development partners including the Council of Scientific and
Industrial Research in South Africa which is making available
the skills and talent to undertake the continental management
of this project. The Commonwealth of Learning and the World
Bank InfoDev Programme are responsible for implementation
of the monitoring and evaluation plan, and the International
Telecommunication Union is supporting the teacher training
programme as well as other aspects of management and coor-
dination. The Medical Research Council is assisting with the
development of ‘Health Points’ in NEPAD e-Schools.
This multi-stakeholder partnership and implementation
approach, adopted for the NEPAD e-Schools Demo, is produc-
ing rapid results with full-scale implementation already underway
in a number of countries. The partnership has also contributed
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Cisco
Eskom
Multichoice
Microsoft
UNDP
Transtel
DHL
Intel
Learnthings
Edutouch
Sentech
HNR
Intel
Mindset
Mecer
Learnthings
Mustek
Sasani
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Multichoice
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Worldspace
Siemens
Technologies
Intel
Computainer
Mindset
Multichoice
Computainer
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Multichoice
Edupac
Astra
Learning
Worldspace
Intel
Xerox
Learnscapes
Computainer
Canonical
Learnthings
Seven Seas
RDL
Cambridge-
i-Linx
Lexmark
Hitachi
Inveneo
MRC
HNR
Text100
UTI
Agile -Learning
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Microsoft
Consortium
HP
Consortium
Oracle
Consortium
Cisco
Consortium
*Note: The e-Africa Commission has recently
welcomed a fifth consortium for the NEPAD
e-Schools Demo, led by AMD.
in no small measure towards the NEPAD e-Schools Initiative
winning the accolade of Visionary of the Year at the Intelligent
Community Forum Awards Ceremony, which took place in New
York in July 2005.
His Excellency, President Yoweri Museveni of the Republic of Uganda presides over the launch of the NEPAD e-Schools Demo at Bugulumbya Secondary School,
in the Kamuli District.