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The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) is a program aiming to bring economic development to African nations. Within this program, an e-School Program is included as a means to provide IT equipment, such as computers, and internet access to all schools in the nations involved in the NEPAD program.

Origins and function

This plan was developed in 2003 at the African Economic Summit.

Goals

Provide computers, internet access, and other Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to all schools in Africa within 10 years, under the NEPAD agreement.

 Demonstration Projects 

Th initial step in implementing the E-School Program has been 'Demo Projects' aimed to understand the most effective methods and the different situations which may be incurred along the implementation process. These projects have been headed by "the private sector partners... AMD, Cisco, HP, Microsoft and Oracle" Successes

The e-Schools program has proven to be one of the more successful projects within NEPAD; schools which are considered NEPAD schools are considered more effective than non-NEPAD schools, even despite staff qualifications at both schools.

Cases

The first school to benefit from this project was Bugulumbya Secondary School in Uganda.

Kenya has also seen successful implementations of the NEPAD e- School program.

Criticisms

 African E-Schools Program Today 

This program has not yet proved successful, despite passing its 10-year goal date.