Africa’s leading conference on digital education returns to Ghana after 18 years Accra, Ghana 21 July 2025 The Government of Ghana has officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with eLearning Africa to host the 19th edition of the continent’s leading conference on digital education, training, and skills development. The event will take place from 3 – 5 June 2026 in Accra. The signing […]
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The First Ever Kiswahili Session at eLearning Africa Makes History
Dar es Salaam, 9 May 2025 In a historic and deeply symbolic moment, Kiswahili took centre stage for the first time at the global eLearning Africa 2025 conference held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The groundbreaking session titled “Akili Unde kwa Ajili Yako” (Akili Unde for You) took place on Friday, 9 May, and marked a significant stride in the conference’s 18-year legacy of […]
Africa a Global EdTech Exporter? Not as Crazy as it Sounds!
July 14, 2025 By Jim Plamondon, CEO, Spix Foundation On the surface, it sounds preposterous. Africa—the continent so often portrayed in headlines about poverty, infrastructure gaps, and donor dependency—asserting that it can become a global exporter of interactive digital courseware within just five years. It’s the kind of claim many might dismiss as empty sloganeering, or wishful thinking from international conferences. After all, Africa’s […]
Africa’s Digital Divide: New Report Calls for Urgent EdTech Innovation and Scalable Policy Action.
A groundbreaking report showcased at the eLearning Africa 2025 Conference sets out the interventions needed to overcome critical barriers to scalability for the EdTech ecosystem. Significant digital infrastructure gaps across the continent are driving an urgent need for innovation, with some countries reporting as few as 2% of primary schools connected to the internet. The report highlights a wave of innovative approaches that are […]
Opinion Piece: Donald Clark on Why AI is Africa’s Friend – Not Its Enemy
AI is Africa’s friend not its enemy! Although I speak English, I’m not English, but Scottish, where the culture is open, talkative and based on humour. That doesn’t make me an expert on vastly different cultures, social norms and linguistic nuances in Africa, but I work in AI and that helps! Yes, colonial erasure, language marginalisation and economic inequality are real, but it would […]
The Digital School’s Vision for Africa – A Conversation with Dr Waleed Al Ali
Dr Waleed Al Ali is the Secretary General of The Digital School, a flagship initiative under the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives. With a mission to expand access to inclusive, high-quality digital education, The Digital School has already reached over half a million learners worldwide. Ahead of eLearning Africa 2025, where The Digital School joins as a Diamond Partner, we spoke with […]
D4D Hub: Bridging Global Digital Divides Through Collaboration
The Digital for Development (D4D) Hub is a strategic platform that strengthens digital cooperation between the European Union, its Member States (Team Europe), partner regions across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the EU neighbouring countries. Rooted in the principles of the Global Gateway, the D4D Hub promotes a human-centric approach to digital transformation, ensuring that technology serves people first. The Global […]
Celebrating 20 Years of eLearning Africa
20 years. 13 countries. One bold idea. When eLearning Africa was launched in 2005, the idea of a pan-African conference on education and technology raised a few eyebrows. Some nodded politely. A few believed. And that was enough. Today, eLearning Africa is the continent’s largest platform for dialogue on digital learning, training and skills development. Over two decades, we’ve:🔹 Welcomed more than 22,000 participants from 100+ […]
🇹🇿 Discover Tanzania: From the Cradle of Humankind to a Future of Innovation
As we prepare to gather in Dar es Salaam for eLearning Africa, taking place from 7 – 9 May 2025, we invite you to explore more than a conference and to discover a country where ancient history, awe-inspiring nature, and forward-looking progress converge. Tanzania is not just a destination. It’s an experience. From the earliest human footprints preserved in Olduvai Gorge – one of […]
“Re-imagining Human Capital Development in Africa: Developing Skills for the Digital Workplace, Building AI Readiness for Africa and the Centrality of Data”
Introduction Reimagining human capital development in Africa means more than reform — it calls for a bold transformation of education, training and lifelong learning systems to power the continent’s sustainable growth and innovation. The 2025 Ministerial Round Table (MRT) brings together high-level policymakers, experts and stakeholders to focus on three interlinked drivers of this Transformation. The first session addresses practical learning and pedagogy for […]