Campaign for 1 Million PCs for African Schools

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Campaign for 1 Million PCs for African Schools

• Wednesday 13th October
• Peter Nolan
• Communications Director
• Global eSchools Communities Initiative

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• GeSCI matches the power of ICT with
• educational needs, has the potential not only to
• improve education, but also to empower people,
• strengthen governance, open up new markets and
• galvanise our efforts to achieve the Millennium
• Development Goals.
• UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan

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GeSCI History

• Founded by UN ICT Task Force, McKinsey Company
  and Governments of Canada, Ireland, Sweden and
  Switzerland
• Working in Namibia, Ghana, Bolivia, Andhra
  Pradesh in India
• SchoolNet Africas 1 Million PCs Campaign
• Jordan Education Initiative
• Chinas interest

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GeSCI Activities

• Four key areas
• Convene and align key stakeholders
• Support facilitate design of end-to-end
  approaches national initiatives
• Assist initiatives raise funds other resources
• Provision of global services (procurement of
  hardware software, training, networking,
  knowledge human capacity development)

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Challenge for GeSCI

• Forever Pilot Project Syndrome
• Must integrate ICTs into health, poverty
  reduction education
• Make the case of how ICTs can further economic
  and social development
• Strengthen communication understanding between
  ICT community development community

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• Thank you
• peter.nolan_at_gesci.org

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The Global Situation

• 370m of 1.3 billion school aged children not in
  school
• MDG 2 universal primary education, 1535m
  educated, trained teachers by 2015
• 867m adults are illiterate
• 64 are women
• Also AIDS, poverty, political unrest economic
  instability
• Problem concentrated in Africa, South Asia,
  Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East

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The End-to-End Model

• Transforming current fragmented, supply-driven,
  largely uncoordinated pilot efforts into
  efficient, demand-driven, coordinated end-to-end
  systems
• Catalyse and support initiatives under the
  leadership of the local Ministries to plan
  implement coordinated national ICT for Education
  strategies
• Convene all key actors
• Match needs to resources more efficient and
  effectively