What is Microsoft’s Badiliko initiative all about?

It is an initiative aimed at improving access by installing 80 digital hubs across sub-Saharan countries both in East Africa and West Africa. The countries that are going to benefit from this Badiliko campaign are Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Nigeria and Gabon.

Microsoft has been very instrumental in acquiring partners that they later help launch Learning Initiatives in the Partners In Learning Programme.
The service will make use of native Microsoft legacy systems like Microsoft Multipoint server and other Microsoft Based distribution systems to grow popularity of Badiliko. The main aim of Badiliko is professional development of Trainers (Teachers) and the students and by extension the community.

To push adoption and show maximum support for Badiliko, Mrs. Maundu, Head of the Human Resource department at the Teacher’s Service Commission, added that this is mainly an adoption of a set of explicit frameworks for embedding ICT into the current setting of education. “We had and still have a great need to acquire more teachers conversant with the ICT sector as a commission and this is one of the initiatives that will help us achieve this.”, Mrs. Maundu said in an exclusive interview with Juuchini Media.

“We expect 20,000 teachers should be trained by June via a total 15 hubs all over Kenya and over 100 thousand students and learners to be reached by June of this year.” Said Joe Lemaron, Regional Project Manager at the British Council in charge of Badiliko project.

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Microsoft and the British Council will on Monday 23^rd January 2012, launch a Training of Trainers-TOT for the Africa Digital Schools Project dubbed “Badiliko”at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies.

The two organizations have partnered to improve ICT use in innovative teaching practice in 6 sub-Saharan countries of Kenya Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Ghana and Nigeria.

‘Badiliko’ is the first project to be implemented as part of the new global agreement between the two organizations.

Over 80 school leaders and teachers from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia will attend the Training Of Trainers exercise.

Venue:    The Kenya School of Monetary Studies

Date:                     Monday, 23rd January 2012

Time:                       9.30AM

Main Speakers:         Chris Brown, Director Programmes, Sub-Sahara Africa, British Council

Mark Matunga, Regional Education Manager, Microsoft East and Southern     Africa

                                   Gabriel Lengoibon, Commission Secretary, TSC