3.+The+Bureaucratic+Axis

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 * ===A project as vast and ambitious as the NEPAD e-Schools Initiative cannot but attract its fair share of bureaucracy.===

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//A policy framework with a clearly defined roles and functions should guide ICT in education implementation activities beginning from the departments and ministries of education to the participating schools. The clarification of the role of governments, funding mechanism particularly before, during and after the pilot phase is crucial in order to sustain and realize the objectives of the e-schools initiative. (Evoh 2007, n.p.)//=====


 * ===Davis' (2008) model identifies the following different actors as being part of the bureaucratic axis: the school board, area board of education, state department of education, ministry of education and UNESCO.===


 * ===The key bureaucratic actor in the NEPAD e-School Initiative is the e-Africa Commission.===


 * ===At a national level, the key bureaucratic body is the National Implementation Agency (NIA).===


 * ===The e-Africa Commission has been criticised for not providing support to e-schools beyond the initial phases.===


 * ===The Demonstration Project has had a positive effect on Ministries of Education, with many Ministries developing ICT-in-Education policies as a result of the Project.===