Shafika Isaacs
Director, Schoolnet Africa
Pro: ICTs can make a difference in
Africa's education crisis
Shafika Isaacs is currently the Executive Director of SchoolNet Africa, a
pan-African non-government organisation headquartered in Johannesburg South
Africa (www.schoolnetafrica.net).
Previously, she worked as a Senior Program Officer for two years, with the
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)’s Acacia Program which
promotes development in Africa through the use of information and
communication technologies (ICTs) where she promoted the SchoolNet Africa
initiative and supported youth, womens’ empowerment and schoolnet projects
in a range of African countries.
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Shafika Isaacs ...
initiative
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youth, womens’ empowerment
and schoolnet projects
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Ms
Isaacs was the Director of the Trade Union Research Project (TURP) which is
a labour research service organisation based at the University of Natal in
South Africa. She worked at TURP for 10 years where she specialised in
research, training and writing publications globalisation and the impact of
changing technologies on the labour market and women’s empowerment.
Ms
Isaacs originally hails from District Six and later, Bo Kaap in Cape Town
South Africa where she was involved in youth organisation and education
initiatives that challenged the apartheid education system at the time. She
was a founder member of the Cape Town-based Primary and High School Schools
Tuition Program and the Skills Training and Education Centre.
Ms
Isaacs won the Mandela Scholarship Award in 1996 to complete an M Sc in
Science and Technology Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at
the University of Sussex. She serves on the Board of Directors of the World
Computer Exchange and on the Steering Committee of OneWorld Africa. She has
recently served as chairperson of the United Nations Division for
Advancement of Women-led Expert Group Meeting on ICTs as an Instrument for
the Advancement of Women and is a member of the Steering Committee of Gender
Caucus at the World Summit on the Information Society. She is South African
by birth.
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