Capacity Building for IT in Education in Developing Countries

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Gail Marshall, Mikko Ruohonen

      Pages 1-11

3. National Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Nordic cooperation on Communication and Information Technologies and didactics in education

      • Peter Bollerslev

      Pages 15-25

   3. Building resource capacity for IT education and training in schools — the case of Botswana

      • Sunday Ojo, Ben Awuah

      Pages 27-38

   4. Computer education and human capacity building for Information Technology in Namibia

      • Geoffrey E. Kiangi

      Pages 39-47

   5. Schools with SPIRIT — capacity building in The Netherlands

      • Pieter Hogenbirk

      Pages 49-56

   6. Information Technology in Norwegian education — consistency of strategic initiatives for implementing IT in primary education

      • Sindre Røsvik

      Pages 57-66

   7. Development of Information Technology in Hong Kong education over the past decade

      • Alex Fung

      Pages 67-74

   8. Fighting a lone battle for Computer Education in Nepal

      • Hari Gopal Shrestha

      Pages 75-80

4. Building Skills in the National Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Bridging the skills gap in Zimbabwe

      • Arthur Sithole

      Pages 83-89

   3. Information Technology education and training initiatives — the Nigerian experience.

      • Uche Modum

      Pages 91-100

   4. Using applications programs in a university to build human capacity for Information Technology

      • D. Arganbright

      Pages 101-107

5. Targetted Projects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Infrastructure issues for implementation of portable computer use in schools

      • Anne McDougall

      Pages 111-117

   3. Capacity building with a difference

      • Sam Gumbo

      Pages 119-125

   4. Principals, Information Technology and leadership: coping with professional development despite isolation

      • William Newman

      Pages 127-135

   5. ‘Communicate and Learn’ — a collaborative project

      • Ji-Ping Zhang, Jef Moonen

      Pages 137-141

   6. The effect of network technology on education

      • Anton J. Knierzinger

      Pages 143-152

Deryn Watson CapBIT 97, Capacity Building for Information Technologies in Education in Developing Countries, from which this publication derives, was an invited IFIP working conference sponsored by Working Groups in secondary (WG 3. 1), elementary (WG 3. 5), and vocational and professional (WG 3. 4) education under the auspices ofIFIP Technical Committee for Education (TC3). The conference was held in Harare, Zimbabwe 25th - 29th August 1997. CapBIT '97 was the first time that the IFIP Technical Committee for Education had held a conference in a developing country. When the Computer Society of Zimbabwe offered to host the event, we determined that the location and conference topic reflect the importance of issues facing countries at all stages of developmen- especially Information Technologies (IT) development. Information Technologies have become, within a short time, one of the basic building blocks of modem industrial society. Understanding IT, and mastering basic skills and concepts of IT, are now regarded as part of the core education of all people around the world, alongside reading and writing. IT now permeates the business environment and underpins the success of modem corporations as well as providing government with cost-effective civil service systems. At the same time, the tools and technologies of IT are of value in the process of learning, and in the organisation and management of learning institutions.

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• Gail Marshall & Associates, St. Louis, USA

  Gail Marshall

• Turku School of Economics & Business Administration, Turku, Finland

  Mikko Ruohonen

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