The “Africa Cloud” project was launched in Benin on Tuesday 1 December 2020
The Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Digital Affairs and Digitalisation, Mr Ahmed Sacca YAROU, chaired the launch ceremony of the “Africa Cloud” project in Benin on behalf of the Minister, Aurelie ADAM SOULE ZOUMAROU. The event took place on Tuesday 1 December 2020 at the Golden Tulip Le Diplomate in Cotonou.
The overall objective of the “Africa Cloud” project is to make innovative knowledge management and digital learning offerings accessible, efficiently and inclusively, to target groups in selected partner countries in Africa.
These include startups and SMEs, young professionals, members of agricultural producer organisations, and stakeholders in the development of the digital economy.
Funded in Benin to the tune of 500,000 euros by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the project aims to contribute to sustainable education by offering a range of learning opportunities with the following benefits:
- Greater impact on learners through quality content
- Greater resource efficiency in the production and maintenance of content
- Improved consistency, transparency and reusability of learning content
- Targeted technical support for each type of learner with regard to learning formats, improvement and benchmarking
Mr Ahmed Sacca YAROU, Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Digital Affairs and Digitalisation, on behalf of the Minister, Aurelie ADAM SOULE ZOUMAROU, thanked the German cooperation office responsible for implementing the project in Benin for its availability. He then recalled the purpose of the launch ceremony, which is to familiarise stakeholders in the sector with the project’s objectives and areas of intervention, so as to develop synergies with ongoing initiatives for greater effectiveness and efficiency and for complementarity in the project’s implementation. Ms Youssen Birgit, Head of German Cooperation in Benin, thanked the Ministry of Digital Affairs and Digitalisation and the government agencies of the digital sector, which worked to bring the project to fruition.
The “Africa Cloud Benin” test phase is scheduled to run throughout 2021.