Survey of ICT and Education in Africa : Guinea-Bissau Country Report

This short country report, a result of larger Information for Development Program (infoDev)-supported survey of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education in Africa, provides a general overview of current activities and issues related to ICT use in education in the country. Guinea-Bissau is a small country of fewer than two million inhabitants. Civil war in the late 1990s destroyed its infrastructure and economy and displaced hundreds of thousands of its population. Recent multi-party elections installed a civilian regime in 2005. A key priority of the new government is infrastructure reconstruction, including those related to education, telecommunication, and electric power. The government of Guinea-Bissau has obtained assistance from the African Development Bank and the World Bank to rehabilitate some of the destroyed infrastructure. That said, the state of telecommunications is quite poor and the electricity supply is sporadic.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Tutu, Osei Agyeman
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2007-06
Subjects:	ACADEMIC YEAR, ADULT ILLITERACY, ADULT ILLITERACY RATE, ADULT LITERACY, ADULT LITERACY RATE, BANKS, BASIC EDUCATION, BASIC EDUCATION SECTOR, BASIC SCHOOLS, BLACKBOARDS, CLASSROOMS, COMMUNITY SCHOOL, CURRICULUM, DEBT, DEVELOPMENT BANK, EDUCATION CAPACITY, EDUCATION POLICY, EDUCATION RESOURCES, EDUCATION SYSTEM, EDUCATIONAL LEVELS, EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, EMPLOYMENT, ENROLMENT RATE, ETHNIC LANGUAGES, FINANCE COMPANY, FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS, FINANCIAL DIFFICULTY, FINANCIAL RESOURCES, HIGHER EDUCATION, HIGHER EDUCATION CAPACITY, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, INFLATION, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, LABOUR FORCE, LEARNERS, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PRIMARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM, PROFESSORS, PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS, PUBLIC UNIVERSITY, PUPILS, QUALIFIED PERSONNEL, QUALITY OF TEACHING, REHABILITATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE, RURAL AREAS, SCHOOL SYSTEM, SCHOOLS, SECONDARY EDUCATION, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, SPORTS, TEACHERS, TEACHING, TECHNICAL EDUCATION, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TERTIARY EDUCATION, TRAINING CENTRES, TRAINING INSTITUTES, TRAINING INSTITUTIONS, UNIVERSAL ACCESS, VOCATIONAL INSTITUTES, VOCATIONAL SKILLS, VOCATIONAL TRAINING, VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRES, WEB SITE, WORKERS, YOUTH, YOUTH LITERACY,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/06/10010717/survey-ict-education-africa-guinea-bissau-country-report https://hdl.handle.net/10986/10668
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