This "living" HTML document was developed during the last year of our service. The three of us were all PC IT volunteers in group 20 and had sites in Northern Namibia. We wanted to develop a document summarizing the best practices that we had found during our service so that subsequent IT volunteers would not have to "reinvent the wheel". Peace Corps Namibia gave us the support we needed to achieve this goal. We chose to create the document in this format because we did not want it to be considered complete and all-inclusive. We hoped to provide a logical, flexible framework that future IT volunteers would continue to amend.

In general, we found the schools in the North eager to embrace computers in the curriculum, but there was no clear direction from the Ministry of Basic Education, Sport and Culture regarding IT education in the Secondary Schools. As we began this task in earnest we learned that the MBESC was developing an ICT Policy for Education. We were able to review a preliminary copy (Proposed August 2004) and found it to be a well thought out practical approach to ICT education in Namibia.

Based on our experiences, we think the best way for IT volunteers to support the MBESC goals is to act in the capacity of IT advisory teachers for all schools in an area, rather than devoting their time to personally teaching the learners at a single school. We developed this document to support that task.

Jonathan Babb
Seth Bennett
Kathy Chaffe

Namibia PCVs, 2003-2004

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