Prof Baryamureeba addresses Youth at the Youth Forum.

1. ANNUAL NATIONAL YOUTH CONFERENCE (ANYC) JANUARY 21, 2015,
2.30-3.30PM, UMA MAIN EXHIBITION HALL, KAMPALA
Theme: Harnessing Youth Potential and Innovation Through ICT
Topic: Best Practices in E-learning
Professor Venansius Baryamureeba, VC UTAMU, barya@utamu.ac.ug

2. BACKGROUND
• Uganda Youth Forum (UYF) Vision—An empowered,
healthy and focused youth
• Harnessing youth potential and innovation through
ICT
– Harnessing youth potential
– Harnessing youth innovation
– Youth utilising ICT as a tool
• Best practices in e-learning
– E-learning for education
– E-learning for health
– E-learning for innovation
– E-learning for business
– E-learning for culture and ethics
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3. Harnessing Youth Potential
• By promoting their health, education, employment
and human rights
• By giving them influence over development policies
and strategies
• By listening to their voices
• By harnessing the full potential of youth mentoring
relationships
• Educators, youth workers, parents, and community
members often share a common goal—they want to
help the youth succeed mainly through training and
professional development

4. INVESTING IN HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND JOB CREATION
• Strengthening Health Programs. Improvements in
health programs can foster the development of a
population that is healthy and capable of
contributing to economic growth.
• Expanding Educational Opportunities.
Improvements in the quality of education and school
completion prepare young women and men with
the abilities they need to move into formal-sector
jobs, earn higher wages, and contribute to a
demographic dividend.
• Creating Jobs. Identifying sectors of the economy
that can expand and foster job growth is essential to
absorbing the incoming numbers of youth entering
the workforce.

5. Harnessing Youth Potential: Education
• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey
• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to
learn and change. Carl Rogers
• The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a
child's home. William Temple
• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change
the world. Nelson Mandela
• Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. George
Washington Carver
• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin
• Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected
everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. Chanakya
• Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest
abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which,
fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater
strength for our nation. John F Kennedy

6. Harnessing Youth Innovation
• Establish youth innovation clubs/networks
– Search, spread, sense and benchmark, and celebrate
• Establish youth innovation centers
• Establish youth innovation zones
• Setup youth innovation and entrepreneurship
projects
• Establish youth innovation and entrepreneurship
institute
• Establish youth innovation competitions
• Establish youth innovation awards

7. Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a
day; show him how to catch fish, and you
feed him for a lifetime.
• If we are to harness the youth energy into a
productive and effective workforce, we must help
the youth help themselves. To achieve this, access to
information and education (particularly vocational
training focused on market opportunities), to
technology (from mobile phones to higher-yielding
seeds) and to capital are crucial. Mo Ibrahim.
• We must recognize that facilitating entrepreneurship
is the most efficient way to enable the youth to fulfill
their aspirations for dignity and a better life.
• Youth need role models e.g. successful youth should
document their stories and share them in books.

8. Youth Using ICT as a Tool
• ICT as a tool for communication
• ICT as a tool for learning
• ICT as a tool for health provision: ICT for health
• ICT as a tool for better functioning of labour
markets
• ICT as a tool for development
• Etc etc etc

9. ICT and job creation
• ICTs are creating new jobs and making labor
markets more innovative, inclusive, and global
• ICT Manufacturing
• Job creation through online work
• ICT-enabled Service delivery

10. Reflections on Knowledge Economy
The strongest currency today is neither the
Pound, Euro, Dollar nor the Shilling but it is
Knowledge
Today we live in a knowledge Society which
has two main categories of people
• Knowledgeable People
• Knowledge able People
ICTs are enabling the Knowledge Economy

11. ICT in Learning
• E-learning is the use of electronic media,
educational technology and ICTs in education
• Old and new technologies need to be used in a
balanced way. On-the-air and off-the-air
radio/radio-cassette, television and offline video-
assisted technologies; more interactive
computer/Internet-based virtual education or
online distance learning
• Possible for anyone, anywhere, anytime to learn
• Opened access to reserved educational capital

12. Delivery Modes will need to change
Lack of facilities and
funding
Increase in tuition fees
Growing student population
Privatization of
education
Cost effective solutions
(e.g. e-learning, virtual
learning, blended )
More virtual universities
Life Long Learning
Only Authorized Access

13. UTAMU Hybrid Model
Community
Engagement
Transformational e-
Learning Content Space
Policy Makers and regulatory bodies
Collaborative
Partners
UTAMU e-Learning Content Space
Digital Teachers Digital Students Digital Family
UTAMU Content
Database
Open Access
Database
UTAMU
E-Library
UTAMU Social
Applications
Integrated Layer

14. Digital Teachers

15. Digital Students

16. E-Learning Content Space

17. Personal Content Database
Personal Content Space

18. Education is opening up….

19. E-Libraries

20. engage
empower
extend
embed
enhance
enrich
exchange
e-learning?
enthuse
entertain
Hybrid Integration of E-Learning has to:

21. Way Forward and Conclusion
• Youth should demand unlimited access to internet:
– Internet enabled Information centers in communities
– Government should subsidise bandwidth
– Government should remove taxes on all ICT equipment
including mobile phones
• Youth should put emphasis on online education and
online resources
• Youth should engage in lifelong learning supported
by the internet
• Ugandan youth should be part of the global youth
network to learn and share experiences
I THANK YOU