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The Centre for Educational Technology (CET) supports the use of educational technology for teaching and learning and works in partnership with the university community. The Centre for Educational Technology (CET) enables and promotes and investigates the integration of learning technologies in teaching and learning at the University of Cape Town and in higher education.

Success of online-mobile education in developing countries

Article that pushes agenda for African engineers role in development. A bit blurred line  between electric engineers and software developers

This 2006 Article develops a NEPAD 3-plan  to develop ICT infrastructure and skills for the youth. Some portal should have come out of this...Really big goals addressed

hosted by the British Library and online bibliography company, Mendeley

With Professor Jose Luis Encarnacao they will seek to establish the developmental challenges emerging economies face in the context of ICT service adoption.

The Digital Doorway™ is an innovative system developed by the CSIR Meraka Institute with funding from the Department of Science and Technology, which encourages self-learning of computer and information skills by both children and adults in areas where information and communications technology infrastructure is scarce.

A Digital Doorway is a rugged computer system used to promote self-learning of computer and information skills in remote areas, in this case with the farmer community.

The Communication for Development one-year master at Malmö University was launched in 2000. It was - and remains - a pioneer project, breaking new ground regarding not only content but also form of study - distance learning on the Internet, with an emphasis on group interaction and peers' collaboration, embracing the web's potential for shrinking costs, broadening reach and eradicating distance. More than a hundred students from all over the world have so far graduated, after having done their field work projects in more than 20 countries, from Peru to Fiji and from South Africa to Sweden. Another 80 to 100 are actively engaged in the current courses. As a new student, you will of course benefit greatly from their experiences. But you will still be at the forefront of a pioneering process, which is gaining momentum every year. If you feel like engaging professionally in social change and development processes, internationally or 'at home', this may be your ticket of entrance. But even if you "only" want to widen your perspectives as a professional in the culture and media sector, ComDev will offer an unsurpassed way to deepened understanding of what is going on in the world!

FrontlineSMS is award-winning free, open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub. Once installed, the program enables users to send and receive text messages with groups of people through mobile phones. What you communicate is up to you, making FrontlineSMS useful in many different ways. HOW IS FRONTLINESMS DIFFERENT? * It does not require an Internet connection. * It works with your existing plan on all GSM phones, modems and networks. * Attach a phone and SIM card, and pay your local operator per SMS as usual. * It is laptop-based so it can be used on the road or during power outages. * It stores all phone numbers and records all incoming and outgoing messages. * All data lives on a local computer, not on servers controlled by someone else. * It is scalable. Messages can be sent to individuals or large groups. * It enables two-way communication, useful for fieldwork or during surveys. * It is easy to install and requires little or no training to use. * Developers can freely take the source code and add their own features. * It can be used anywhere in the world simply by switching the SIM card. HOW CAN IT BE USED? * Human rights monitoring * Disaster relief coordination * Natural resource management * Election monitoring * Emergency alerts * Mobilising task forces * Field data collection * Conducting public surveys * Health care info requests * Agricultural price updates * Organizing protests * Mobile education programs * Coordinating fundraising efforts * Providing weather updates * And more... how will YOU use it?