Prépaly

Prépaly Initiative enacted on a platform called Prépaly (interactive multimedia training for PREParing high school students (LYcéens) in advanced scientific and technological studies) with the aim to:

• Respond to the needs of young people in terms of information in science and technology
• Give them basic training in computers and multimedia that will be their key to a successful academic career, and which will help prepare them for the world outside of school
• Reinforce the ties between secondary and higher education establishments in the north with those in the south, as well as to reinforce the ties between schools and academic institutions in different areas of the south
• Facilitate the creation of multimedia content for teaching in francophone Africa

This plan is clearly based on the organisation, production, and diffusion of knowledge and know-how from higher education towards secondary education, through ICT in education. [Source: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa Volume 2: 53 Country Reports. InfoDev 2007] Ce projet est financé à hauteur de 100.000 € par le Fond francophone des inforoutes, dans le cadre de son 8ème appel à propositions (voir le site web www.francophonie.org/fonds ). La partie du projet soutenue par le Ffi débute officiellement le 1er octorbe 2002, pour se terminer 18 mois plus tard.

The project involves Lycées of different countries such as Togo, Cameroun and Comoros and hence promote intercultural learning especially given the “mini-project” initiative by which students from di, [Source: the http://www.prepaly.com website] See also description for Cameroun above.

NB: What is missing here, though, is to know at what stage of implementation is the initiative in the specific case of Equatorial Guinea: how much the resources made available by Prepaly are actually used, etc.. [Maybe worth contacting and interviewing someone from Prepaly.]