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WITFOR 2005 Education Commission Project to enhance ICT competence of teachers in developing countries
World Information Technology Forum WITFOR 2005 will be held in Botswana in 2005. The forum is organized now for the second time by International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), which is a world-wide non-governmental organisation established in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO for national societies working in the field of information processing. The purpose of the WITFOR Conferences is to help implement information development strategies and projects in developing countries. The conference is a partnership between the hosting government and IFIP. An important outcome is an agenda to bridge the digital divide between the developed and developing nations and empowerment of citizens with the help of ICT.
WITFOR will be organized every second year in co-operation with the member societies and local governments in developing countries. The first WITFOR took place in Lithuania in 2003 http://www.witfor.lt/. The second WITFOR will take place in Gaborone, Botswana from 31 st August to 2 nd September 2005.
The work of WITFOR 2005 is organised mainly through eight commissions, one of them being Commission for Education. It is proposing, that in addition to organising a successful education session, the Education commission will aim at launching a more sustainable and tangible developmental input as the outcome of the WITFOR Gaborone process.
To read the complete project document download the SADC teacher change labs project (PDF 38 KB).
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