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Capacity Building for IT in Education in Developing Countries

IFIP TC3 WG3.1, 3.4 & 3.5 Working Conference on Capacity Building for IT in Education in Developing Countries 19–25 August 1997, Harare, Zimbabwe

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  1. Gail Marshall

    1. Gail Marshall & Associates, St. Louis, USA

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  2. Mikko Ruohonen

    1. Turku School of Economics & Business Administration, Turku, Finland

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Part of the book series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT)

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Table of contents (39 chapters)

  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
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Gail Marshall & Associates, St. Louis, USA

    Gail Marshall

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

    Mikko Ruohonen

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