Chapter 10: Accessible, Appropriate, and Effective Education: The Case of Nettel@Africa

Accessible, appropriate, and effective education is needed to offset the combined problems of infrastructure, ethnic, religious, and gender inequities that have hampered efforts to reduce poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Education is a component in solving capacity problems and enhancing economic development. NetTel@Africa (NetTel) is a model for an international online education program focused on ICT. While the content is based on ICT infrastructure development, NetTel served as a vehicle for this study that revealed unexpected social justice issues. What follows is the result of these findings. The connection between ICT, an online learning platform, and social justice translates into international advances in education in a unique way.