International Journal of Education and Development using ICT

International Journal of Education and Development using ICT > Vol. 5, No. 2 (2009)

The Computers for Education Forum: Working with 57 rural schools (Ngoketunjia, North West Region, Cameroon)

Tamara R Palamakumbura, Partners for Community Development Initiative (PCDI)

Abstract
The Computers for Education Forum (COF) is a framework of 3 partners and 57 schools extending across 7 villages in rural Cameroon. The objective of the framework is to bridge the digital divide through education. As its first phase of activities, the program will run 12 monthly seminars for school teachers. Of the participants 51 schools (89%) do not currently teach computing. Of these 42 schools will introduce computing as a subject through the program. To facilitate this, the program will invite 5-10 teachers from each school to participate in the program and as such will be training 200-400 teachers.

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