Autor: Leopold Reif, Hoffmann & Reif
The "Ethiopia- ICT-Assisted Development Project" is aiming at enabling knowledge owners to represent directly their knowledge through media via an already existing ICT network infrastructure. The advancement of learning applications makes it possible that academic subject matter experts cover elements of the educational value chain that in the past could have only be handled by publishing experts and expensive external services.
The establishment of an eLearning Competence Center should provide the organisational framework through which the acquisition and further distribution of eLearning skills and eLearning programmes will be achieved. Furthermore the eLearning Competence Center will ensure that productisation and distribution of training will meet the requirements of all universities and schools.
It is assumed that the direct representation of content by its owners - supported by an appropriate organisational framework and advanced ICTs - will result in a higher degree of authenticity, contextuality, adaptability, cost-efficiency and time-to-market of content.
Manuel Castell has described this new potential in his unsurpassed words: "Unprecedented productivity potential can be achieved when appropriate applications -; and I may add here: the appropriate organisational frameworks - empower humankind with the ability incessantly to feed knowledge back into knowledge and experience into experience"[5].