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Excerpted from the infoDev publication, Using Technology to Train Teachers: Appropriate Uses of ICT for Teacher Professional Development in Developing Countries.

Guiding questions

• Which private-sector, civil-sector or governmental organizations have stakes in the success of the country’s educational improvement?
• Which organizations have stakes in the growth of the telecommunications and technology sectors?
• How do current regulations regarding school fees, hiring, and revenue generation, telecommunications access and costs, and other policy areas aff ect introduction of computers and the Internet in schools and teacher training colleges?
• Which organizations might be enlisted to help change these aspects of the regulatory environment?

Contents

• Partnerships to Increase Program Strength
• Cooperation within Government
• ConnectED Uganda: Ensuring Program Survival
• Private-sector Partnerships
• Intel Teach to the Future
• TerraCom Corporation
• Partnerships with Civil-society Organizations
• The Omar Dengo Foundation, Costa Rica: Transforming Teaching and Learning in Primary Schools
• World Links SchoolNet
• SchoolNet Uganda
• Partnerships with Schools
• G.S. Souers de l’Assomption, Rwanda