Speakers

PRESENTER AND DESIGNATION & LINK TO CV	TITLE OF PAPER & LINK TO ABSTRACT
Minister Kader Asmal MP Minister of Education – South Africa	Prospects, possibilities and perils: Distance Education's response to Africa's development needs
Saleem Badat Chief Executive Officer Council on Higher Education, South Africa	Education Policy and Regulation towards access, equity and quality
Mr Neil Butcher South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE), South Africa	Financing Abstract ButcherDistance Education Programmes in African education: a guide for sound investment
Dr Phil Christensen Director: Academy for Educational Development (AED), South Africa Office	Is technical and vocational education possible through distance education?
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Prof Raj Dhanarajan President and CEO of Commonwealth of Learning, Canada	Distance Education for development
Sir John Daniel Assistant Director-General for Education UNESCO, Paris	Distance Education: Is it still relevant in 2004?
Prof Tony Dodds Honorary Visiting Professor University of Namibia	Adult Education: Illiteracy to lifelong learning: Roles, potential, signs of promise and challenges in the use of Open and Distance Learning
C. J. Dolan Principal:Senior Secondary School of Distance Education Open Access College South Australia	Improving access to schooling by distance education in Australia
Kuzvinetsa Peter Dzvimbo	The challenges and potential of distance teaching and open learning in Africa: Experiences from the African Virtual University
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Mr SP Gaur National Institute for Open Schooling	Open Schooling: Broadening access by Distance Education
Ms Jenny Glennie Director: South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE), South Africa	Beyond the wish list: Proposed strategies for assuring quality of distance education in South Africa
Prof Brenda Gourley Vice-Chancellor Open University of the UK, United Kingdom	The digital divide: Solution or problem
Shafika Issacs Executive Director: Schoolnet Africa South Africa	ICT Applications: What's new and what's working in Africa
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Asha Kanwar	Quality Assurance in Open and Distance Learning
Prof Abdul Waheed Khan Assistant Director-General Communication and Information Sector UNESCO, Paris	To be announced
Prof PE Kinyanjui NEPAD Commissioner on e-Schools Nairobi, Kenya	NEPAD: Initiatives in Information and Communication Technologies and associated capacity building
Donatus Albert Komba	The challenges to achieving relevant, cost-effective and quality distance education provision in Africa: The experience of the Open University of Tanzania 1992-2002
Michael Latham President CfBT Education Services United Kingdom	Challenges and prospects for partnership and e-learning
Mr Perive Tanuvasa Lene Chief Executive Officer Samoa Polytechnic Apia, Samoa	Technical and vocational education: Possibilities through distance education
Prof John Limozi Education Officer Ministry of Educational Science and Technology (INSET unit)	School-based teacher development in Kenya
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Professor Mzobanzi M. Mboya	DISTANCE EDUCATION AND TEACHER DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: A NEPAD PROGRAMME OF ACTION
Ms Francis Mensah Director: Namibian College of Open Learning (NAMCOL), Namibia	Open schooling: Broadening access by distance education: the Namibian experience, Namibian College of Open Learning
Dr A Modibbo Mohammed Director and Chief Executive National Teachers Institute Kanduna, Nigeria	Training teachers through distance education: The Nigerian Experience
Dr Dermot Moore Retired Vice-Principal of TSA and independent consultant	Sustainability, quality and balance - An integrated systems approach to ODL delivery for vocational education
Mr Vis Naidoo Education Specialist, Educational Technology Commonwealth of Learning, Canada	ICTs in Education Policy – supporting Distance Education
Arnaldo Nhavoto Coordinator and Lecturer on Educational Planning and Management Open and Distance Learning Centre Maputo, Mozambique	Building capacity in distance education: the case of Mozambique
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Ms Hariet Perlman Programme Manager: Soul City Institute for health development and communication South Africa	Challenges in AIDS communication and distance education work across eight countries in Sub-Saharan Africa; lessons from Soul City Regional project
Prof Barney Pityana Vice-Chancellor and Principal, New Unisa South Africa	Open Distance Education in Africa: Quality, access, success
Prof Hamidou Nacuzon Sall Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar	Policy frameworks: towards quality in Distance Learning. Main problems and solutions
Mr Noah Samara Chairman and Chief Executive Officer WorldSpace Corporation	Transforming education for a new Africa, convergence of technologies: Possibilities for distance education
Professor Juma Shabani Director and Representative Harare Regional Office, UNESCO	Cultural and linguistic issues in regional cooperation in OD education in Africa
Lyndall Shope-Mafole	Accelerating development with Information and Communication Technologies
Prof Richard Siaciwena ODL Strategic Adviser Ministry of Education Republic of Mozambique	Community education through distance education
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Prof James Taylor Deputy Vice-Chancellor Global Learning Services University of Southern Queensland, Australia	Increasing access and success through the application of appropriate models of distance education
Dr Stan Trollip Capella University, USA	eLearning: elusive but attainable promises
Mallam Hafiz Wali Education Tax Fund Abuja, Nigeria	Realising the potential of Open Learning and Distance Education. Does distance education equal ICT?
Ms Tessa Welch Coordinator: Quality Assurance and Teacher Education South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE), South Africa	Beyond the wish list: Proposed strategies for assuring the quality of distance education in South Africa.