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 re...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/06/10010717/survey-ict-education-africa-guinea-bissau-country-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10668 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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