Publication: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa : Mauritania Country Report
Date
2007-06
ISSN
Published
2007-06
Author(s)
Tutu, Osei Agyeman
Abstract
This short country report, a result of
larger Information for Development Program
(infoDev)-supported survey of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) in education in Africa, provides a
general overview of current activities and issues related to
ICT use in education in the country. Mauritania's
approach to the implementation of ICTs in the educational
and public sectors has been to use the Universite de
Nouakchott as the focal point of its activities to enhance
the usage of these technologies in the youth and the
administration of the country in future. The university is
providing the leadership, plans, training, and management of
the entire process. With the growth of the country's
oil industry, financial constraints that previously could
have impeded the country's drive towards its
connectivity objectives will be reduced; this should help to
advance the rollout of its Internet connectivity and
electrification programmes. Challenges include the
relatively low number of secondary schools, and
corresponding low enrolment levels, which adversely impact
the numbers of people who will become computer literate in
the near-term, since the country's educational ICT
development programme focuses mainly on the secondary and
tertiary education sectors.
Citation
“Tutu, Osei Agyeman. 2007. Survey of ICT and Education in Africa : Mauritania Country Report. InfoDev ICT and Education Series. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/2bb39499-da59-53d9-99ed-db96f4e0f069 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”