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Africa’s Leading eLearning Africa Conference 2024: Unveiling “Education Fuels Innovation, Investment Amplifies Skills”
[Kigali, August 16, 2023] – The much-anticipated annual eLearning Africa Conference and Exhibition, Africa’s foremost gathering on digital education, training, and skills development, is set to convene experts, policymakers, academics, business leaders, and investors from across the African continent and around the world. The conference, running from May 29 to 31, 2024  in the vibrant ...
August 16, 2023
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eLA: African Flair as AI and Innovation Mark Big Shift in Education
Digital innovation and Artificial Intelligence are set to be key themes as Africa’s top education and technology event, eLearning Africa, heads for Senegal next month, from 24-26 May. And the focus on innovation and AI marks a moment of transformation in African education, say the event’s organisers. eLA Founder and Director Rebecca Stromeyer published details ...
May 8, 2023
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eLearning Africa 2023: “AN EXCEPTIONAL CONTRIBUTION TO EDUCATION, TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT” – PRESIDENT MACKY SALL ENDORSES ELEARNING AFRICA
President Macky Sall of Senegal is giving his enthusiastic backing to eLearning Africa, as the conference heads back to West Africa. The President has agreed to become the official patron of the event. eLearning Africa today (Thursday) published a copy of a letter from President Sall to the event’s founder and director, Ms Rebecca Stromeyer. ...
December 22, 2022
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eLearning Africa returns to Kigali
eLearning Africa – Press Release The leading conference and exhibition on digital learning, training and skills development, to take place in Kigali, May 2022 The 15th International Conference and Exhibition on Digital Education, Training and Skills Development will take place in Rwandan Capital City, Kigali from May 11 – 13, 2022, at Kigali Convention Center ...
April 13, 2022
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eLA: LET’S SEIZE THE MOMENT, SAY MINISTERS
eLearning Africa – Press Release African countries should “seize the moment” and take advantage of a historic opportunity for “massive, long-term, sustainable economic growth,” according to Rwanda’s Minister of ICT and Innovation, Paula Ingabire. And Rwandan Education Minister, Dr Valentine Uwamariya, warned that “failing to focus now on education, training and technology would be unforgivable.” ...
April 13, 2022
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New Tools, New Threats: Cybersecurity Virtual Exchange Offers New Solutions
The growing demand for online learning tools in Africa is accompanied by increasingly sophisticated threats to cyber security, say the organisers of a major online forum, the eLearning Africa Cybersecurity Virtual Exchange, which will take place from 26 – 28 October. “Online learning is here to stay but people need to understand the risks and ...
August 20, 2021
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On the road to Rwanda: eLearning Africa returns to Kigali
Rwanda will host eLearning Africa in May 2022, the organisers have announced. The Convention Centre in Kigali will be the setting for the next edition of Africa’s leading conference and exhibition on technology-assisted learning, bringing political leaders, investors and some of the world’s leading experts on education and technology to the Rwandan capital for three ...
August 10, 2021
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Languages & the Media 2021 moves online
Due to the continued uncertainties surrounding international travel and large-scale gatherings associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s edition of Languages & the Media will be held online. The conference and exhibition, one of Europe’s leading events on media localisation and accessibility, was planned to take place in Berlin in September, after being postponed because ...
May 10, 2021
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A Covid-19 é “uma oportunidade”, afirmam os educadores africanos num importante inquérito
Cinquenta por cento dos professores, formadores e especialistas em tecnologias da educação africanos que foram inquiridos consideram que a pandemia da Covid-19 vai acabar por ser uma oportunidade “significativa” ou “muito significativa” para a educação em África. Os resultados do inquérito, divulgado hoje pela eLearning Africa e pela EdTech Hub, revelam que muitos educadores africanos ...
April 8, 2021
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A Recap of the Languages & the Media Virtual Event 2020
When the 13th Languages & the Media conference, Europe’s most prominent get-together on audiovisual media localisation and accessibility, was moved to 20 – 22 September 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the organisers decided to offer a silver lining to the many registrants and host the first ever Languages & the Media Virtual Event on ...
February 4, 2021
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ICWE was in charge of implementing the communication strategy by developing strong, sustainable and reliable connections with key media and journalists throughout Europe. ICWE was also responsible for organising a Journalists’ Conference … The team of ICWE GmbH has delivered all its services to our full satisfaction in a very motivated and highly professional way.

Ralf Jacob | Head of Unit – European Commission DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion