Rwanda investing in transforming education through computers

Rwanda is investing in bringing computers into the country’s classrooms through the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization. The goal is to give half of the country’s 2.5 million school children access to a laptop within two years from now, reports TIME Magazine.

The pilot program in Rwanda finished earlier this year, and the country is [...]

eCap Ghana at International Conference on African Culture and Development

MKFC Stockholm College Ghanian partner eCap Ghana will present their work about “ Through educating the community of the importance of healthy living and the benefit of education” at ICACD 2010.
The conference would be organized in Kumasi Ghana from 14th to 17th of November 2010.
The conference celebrate the golden Jubilee of more than seventeen African [...]

Habari Ya Kenya!

MKFC Local partner visit to Sololo, Northern Kenya
Anne Kagiri is working for eCap Kenya and MKFC in Kenya. This presentation is from her trip to visit schools and communities in Sololo in Kenya.
I managed to talked to some women groups (quite willing to participate) the Local leaders ( to try and influence people especially the [...]

Kenya and Microsoft to put all schools online

ITNews Africa are reporting that Microsoft will start implementing programs that will enable all schools in Kenya to be online together with the Ministry of Education.
“Students will in future able to study online by using this new curriculum that we will have installed in their respective schools. Government will also save on costs of buying [...]

Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web

“Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world,” says Bill Gates. “It will be better than any single university.”
He believes the $50,000 a year university education could be done via the web for as little as $2,000.

Via Kurzweilai