SchoolNet Nigeria is a nonprofit organization of stakeholders in education committed to the effective use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for enhancing teaching, learning and management processes in Nigerian schools.
Partnerships
The evolution of SchoolNets continent wide is a strategy based on partnerships. These strategic partnerships are to enable SchoolNets draw on a wide range of resources from the public and private sectors and donor community, while ensuring the organization works within government policy and implementation frameworks.
In the private sector, our main focus is to occupy the important role of Corporate Social Investment (CSI) implementation partners in the educational sector for private sector companies, ensuring the objectives and expectations of the partners are met in their CSI programmes while they focus on their areas of core business. SchoolNet Nigeria together with its pool of international SchoolNet partners has broad experience which arises from its implementation focus, and its proven ability to plan, negotiate, roll out and evaluate demanding projects.
Background
SchoolNet Nigeria evolved from the concept proposal for a regional SchoolNet Africa Initiative was endorsed in 1999 at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa's (UN ECA) Africa Development Forum, which was attended by Africa's Heads of States to examine how ICTs can contribute to development on the continent. It was formally established in 2001, after consultations with stakeholders in Federal Ministries of Education, Science & Technology communications and the Education Trust Fund. The consultations ended with a 3 day stakeholders meeting with over 250 education stakeholders from private and public sectors in Abuja in September 2001. Read more
