As Africa’s mobile telecommunications continue to expand rapidly, the continent’s education systems are seeing major developments in the learning process for school children, students, apprentices and technicians. This year’s eLearning Africa conference in Lusaka identified the main trends.

More and more African nations are embracing full-scale regulatory reforms and market liberalisation in a bid to attract more investment in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector and exploit the potential of low-cost technologies. Their efforts to improve access to the Internet are slowly paying off.

Laptops and desktop computers have been installed in some schools and they can be shared during lessons. However, questions are being asked about the cost and sustainability of the laptops and desktop computers: Are these investments justified when the road network remains poor, energy supply unreliable and there is still no fixed line infrastructure?

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