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New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)

Fast Facts: 
  • The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) is a Vision and Strategic Framework for Africa’s Renewal
  • Priority Areas:
    • APRM (African Peer Review Mechanism)
    • Agriculture, particularly multi-country initiatives and policies that promote market access, agribusiness and SMEs
    • Human Development
    • Infrastructure, particularly large scale country projects
    • Science and Technology
    • Investment promotion and private sector development
    • Industrial development, including development of Africa’s productive capacity initiative for competitiveness and market.
    • Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs)
  • The NEPAD e-Schools Initiative was publicly launched in Durban at the Africa Summit of the World Economic Forum on June 12, 2003
  • 96 Participating Schools (6 schools x 16 countries)
  • Consortia Members:
    • AMD
    • Cisco
    • HP
    • Microsoft
    • Oracle

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NEPAD e-Africa Commission
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) is a vision and strategic framework for Africa’s renewal. The NEPAD e-Africa Commission was created to promote Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development in the African continent. The commission (in consultation with African governments) has identified ICT skills development as a key priority, and has established the NEPAD e-Schools Initiative to respond to this issue.

NEPAD e-Schools Initiative
The NEPAD e-Schools Initiative aims to impart ICT skills to teachers and students in primary and secondary schools in Africa, harnessing technology to improve, enrich and expand their education and to make every learner health literate. Over a ten-year period the initiative seeks to develop all African schools (estimated to be in excess of 600,000) into NEPAD e-Schools. These schools will be provided with necessary infrastructure and ICT equipment, and will have teachers that are appropriately trained and access to appropriate applications and digital content, to ensure that ICTs play a meaningful role in enhancing education and health on the African continent.

NEPAD and AMD
As a leader of one of the five consortia spearheading the initiative, AMD has worked closely with NEPAD and other digital includsion ecosystem partners to deploy technology across the continent. In the first phase of the initiative called the NEPAD e-schools Demonstration Project, AMD and its NEPAD partners are deploying learning labs in 18 schools spanning six countries.

When this first phase is complete, the five consortia will have provided 96 African schools with Internet access and computing capabilities. Furthermore, the solutions put forth by the five consortia will form the basis of a larger process to scale and replicate the successes in a larger phase two rollout being planned by the NEPAD e-Africa commission.

AMD Consortium Partners for Uganda
NOTE: AMD Consortium Partners vary by country

  • AMD
  • Microsoft - software licenses
  • Cisco - networking equipment provider
  • ASBIS - Server PC provider
  • NewSkies Satellites - satellite bandwidth provider
  • I Direct Technologies - satellite-based broadband access
  • Intersat Africa - satellite systems integrator
  • Learnthings Africa - education content provider
  • Computainer - health content provider
  • Agile Learning - learning management system provider
  • Multichoice - digital satellite TV provider
  • Inveneo - hardware provider & implementation support

In addition, AMD has worked with the following local Ugandan companies:

  • Linux Solutions
  • Bushnet
  • SchoolsFora
  • Multichoice Uganda

AMD Consortium Allocated Countries

Uganda

  • Kampala - Kyambogo College
  • Luwero - St. Andrews Kaggwa
  • Mityana - Bukuya S.S.S.

Mali

  • Bamako - Lycée Mamadou Sarr
  • Dioila - Lycée Dowele Marico
  • Kidal - Lycée Attaher Ag Illy

Senegal

  • Lycee Aline Sitoe Diatta
  • Lycee de Bakel Waounde
  • Lycee Ibou Diallo Sedhio
  • Lycee de Oussouye
  • Lycee Waounde Ndiaye Bakel

Burkina Faso

  • Boulsa - CEG Komtoega
  • Komtoega - Lycée Provinciale Boulsa
  • Diapaga - Lycée Untaani Diapaga

Gabon

  • Bongoville - Lucien Nkouna
  • Moabi - Edourd Mossot
  • Ndende - Lycee Paul Maria

Cameroon

  • Bafia Government Bilingual High School
  • Bamenda Government Technical High School
  • Mbansan Government School

NEPAD e-Schools Demonstration Project

As a first step, a NEPAD e-Schools Demonstration Project (demo) is intended to accrue a body of knowledge, based on real-life implementation experiences of ICTs in African schools across the continent that will serve to inform the model/s for post-demo rollout. The demo is being undertaken in six secondary schools in each of 17 African countries. The countries are: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo Brazaville, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda.

For the NEPAD e-Schools demo, all 96 participating schools (6 schools X 16 countries) have been allocated to 5 consortia led by:

  • AMD
  • Cisco
  • HP
  • Microsoft
  • Oracle

Within the AMD consortium, there are ecosystem partners that provide the basic ICT skills training programs for all schools. Project execution will entail at least the following components: infrastructure (including computers, communications, networking, power, etc.); ICT training for teachers; content and curriculum development; efforts towards community buy-in, involvement and ownership of the process; “health point” definition issues; organization and management of the project; collaboration issues; and financial and sustainability issues.

Contact Information

NEPAD e-Africa Commission
Building 43B,
The CSIR,
Meiring Naude Road,
Lynnwood, Pretoria
South Africa
Tel: +27 12 841 4083

Executive Deputy Chairperson: Dr. Henry Chasia