
As part of its 2011/12 capacity building initiatives, UNESCO-IICBA conducted a workshop on enhancing the capacity of teacher education policy makers in mapping and planning for national ICT in education strategies. The workshop was conducted in Maputo, Mozambique, 12-15 December 2011 and was officially opened by Dr. Arlindo da Costa Gonçalo Mazungane Chilundo, Deputy Minister of Education of Mozambique, with the Director of IICBA, Mr. Arnaldo Nhavoto, making a keynote speech. The workshop was attended by high level planners from the Ministries of Education of Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The major issues addressed in the workshop include, but were not limited to, policy makers’ knowledge and skills in systematically mapping the present situation of ICT for teacher education (ICT4TED), development of ICT-enhanced teacher education programmes, planning for implementation of ICT4TED, empowering women in ICT4TED decision making, planning for implementation of IICBA’s ICT-enhanced teacher standards for Africa (ICTeTSA) and ICT-enhanced teacher development (ICTeTD) model. The workshop was officially closed by Mrs. Maria de Fátima Fernando Zecariasthe, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education of Mozambique.










