Feasibility Study to Connect All African Higher Education Institutions to High-Speed Internet : Burkina Faso Case Study
Burkina Faso considers the education sector a critical player in its development priorities. The higher education sector, which comprised 18 accredited universities (10 public and 8 private) and 75 Grandes Ecoles (23 public and 52 private) in 2020,...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/799551626430884544/Feasibility-Study-to-Connect-All-African-Higher-Education-Institutions-to-High-Speed-Internet-Burkina-Faso-Country-Case-Study-Report-Annex-1 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36043 |
| Summary: | Burkina Faso considers the education
sector a critical player in its development priorities. The
higher education sector, which comprised 18 accredited
universities (10 public and 8 private) and 75 Grandes Ecoles
(23 public and 52 private) in 2020, is expected to play an
important role in education and training to support the
country’s priority education outcomes by 2030. Digital
technologies provide opportunities for addressing the
challenges facing higher education - growing demand for
higher education, falling quality, the mismatch between
education and employability and disconnection between
research and development challenges. Higher education
institutions (HEIs) in Burkina Faso lack adequate bandwidth
to meet their research and education needs because the
available broadband is expensive and insufficient to address
their needs. As part of the digital economy for Africa
(DE4A) initiative, the World Bank commissioned a study to
develop an operational roadmap to connect all African HEIs
to high-speed Internet. As part of the feasibility study,
this report provides a detailed country-level assessment to
connect all HEIs in Burkina Faso to high-speed Internet.
Chapter one is introduction, the report provides a country
overview in chapter two to provide the national context. The
connectivity gap has both a supply-side and a demand-side is
chapter three explores the demand-side, focusing on
information and communications technology (ICT) in the
education sector and the challenges impacting the use of
information and communication technologies for teaching,
learning, and research - creating the pull factors; and
chapter four examines the supply-side, the ICT sector’s key
components and the challenges affecting high-speed
connectivity. Chapter five presents a high-level summary of
the status of national research and education network (NREN)
as well as its achievements and limitation in delivering
high-speed connectivity to HEIs. Drawing on findings from
the earlier chapters, chapter six discusses the cost of
connecting all HEIs in Burkina Faso to high-speed Internet.
A summary is given in chapter seven, followed by the appendices. |
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