Abdou Salam Sall, Rector University Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) - Dakar, Senegal
Moustapha Diack, Director of MAN (MERLOT Africa Network) - Southern Universiity - LA, USA
Gerry Hanley, CEO MERLOT (Multimedia Education Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) -
California States University - California - USA
Bakary Diallo, Rector, Africa Virtual University (AVU) (Headquaters, Ring Road, Kilimani-Kenya) - East Africa
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MODERATOR: Dr. Solomon Negash - Kennesaw State university, GA - USA & President of the Bethany Memorial Foundation (Ethiopia, East Africa)

PRESENTATION 1 - The Role of Open Solutions and Open Education Ressources in Solving the Development Equation
Mr. Arif Jinha, University of Ottawa, Ottawa -Canada
Dr. Moustapha Diack, Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA - USA

PRESENTATION 2 - The Role of Desktop Virtualization in reducing the Digital Divide: The nComputing Technology
Mr. Stephen A. Dukker, Chairman and CEO
ncomputing.com

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PANEL FOCUS: Essential and powerful lever for sustainable development and capacity building, knowledge is not equally accessible to all. However, the Internet now offers a huge potential for tearing down the barriers to knowledge acquisition, knowledge production, and distributed collaboration, with the availability of open solution tools and progresses in information and communication technologies. The expert Panel WO-MAN will reflect on how the OER movement and ICT for development in general can empower women and will discuss their current initiatives in Africa.

MODERATORS: Gerry Hanley - CEO, MERLOT & California States University - California - USA &
Moustapha Diack - Director, MERLOT Africa network & Southern university - louisiana - USA

PANELISTS:
Geneviève Puiségur-Pouchin -Director Reli@ (Ressources en lignes pour Institutrices @fricaines)
Mireille Massouka - Interim Regional Coordinator of ERNWACA (Educational Research Network for West and Central Africa)
Christelle N'cho, Floss4edu & NGO - Women & ICT, Ivory Coast, West Africa
Michele Dean - Open University (UK) and Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA)
Bah Diallo - Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Guinea and Advisory/Charge de Mission to the Director General of UNESCO for Africa.

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This 5-hours workshop is conducted by the director of lodestar Learning, Robert bilyck. It will train participants to design their own quality-interactive learning resources using the LodeStar software and will plans for workshop follow-ups to empowwer participants so that they can play lealadership roles in their instituions' OER plan and elearning agenda.

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Registration to the afternoon sessions is $40 for African scholars and $120 for other international attendees. Online registration is available here.

|| Southern University System – SUS, LA – USA || Kennesaw State University - KSU, GA – USA || Addis Ababa University - Ethiopia - AAU || University Cheikh Anta Diop - Senegal - UCAD || National University of Rwanda - NUR || Mbara University of Science and Technology - Uganda - MUST || INITELEMATIQUE , Burundi - INITELEMATIQUE || MERLOT Africa Network -  MAN || African Virtual University -AVU, Kenya || MERLOT Organization and Community – MERLOT || UNESCO Open Training Platform - OPT || Educational Research Network for West and Central Africa - ERNWACA || Global Development Learning Network - GDLN || Qedoc Interactive Educational Resources - Qedoc ||Global Textbook Project - GTP || Asylum - Markbook ||Lodestarlearning - Lodestar || Atlantic Computing - AtlanticC ||

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UCAD II Conference Center

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