The Minister for Education and Vocational Training, Professor Jumanne Maghembe has announced that Tanzania will host the 6th eLearning Africa in 2011. Minister Maghembe said this before dignitaries and delegates during the closing ceremony of the 4th eLearning Africa held in Dakar Senegal on 29th May, 2009. “It’s my humble pleasure to announce that we are ready to host the 6th eLearning Africa on the land of intense beauty and unbeatable hospitality- Tanzania. Tanzanians will be more than ready to extend their unbeatable hospitality to you!,” he firmed up. In 2010, the eLearning Africa event will be held in Lusaka, Zambia.

The fourth eLearning Africa conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training came to a successful end on Friday, May 29th, 2009. Under the patronage of the Republic of Senegal and attended by its President Abdoulaye Wade and Prime Minister Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye, as well as 10 other ministers, eLearning Africa attracted 1315 eLearning users, newcomers, providers and experts from 85 countries, who gathered over the three conference days at Le Méridien President in Dakar, Senegal.

“I appreciate the way Senegalese government and stakeholders organized this event. To me, it was a very successful event and I believe every person who attended shares the same view,” added Prof. Maghembe.

The eLearning Africa is the most comprehensive conference on ICT for development, education and training on the Continent. Its mission is to bring people together who are actively engaged in education and in the implementation of learning technologies in schools, universities, corporate training as well as in education in the public sector. Participants are high-level decision-makers such as Ministers of Education, representatives from government agencies, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), development agencies and international organisations, senior executives from businesses, as well as practitioners from all fields of education.