Cologne, February, 26th 2004

Dear Members of the it@ab Network

This newsletter contains further information on the upcoming it@ab Senior Management Workshop in Windhoek / Namibia. It is only a few days before the it@ab network meets again!

In addition we would like to give you updated information on the development of the Blended Learning product on “Business-related IT Training and Consulting” as well as status information on the it@ab Upgrade Programme for Junior Consultants currently carried out in Germany.

1. Workshop in Windhoek, Namibia - 2-6 of March 2004

In close cooperation with InWEnt, Capacity Building International, IT@AB Namibia is hosting and organizing a SADC wide conference in Windhoek in the Information and Learning Resource Centre at UNAM - University of Namibia.

Please find in CLE the Report of our last Workshop in Dar es Salaam! This will be an important document for this upcomming workshop.
http://cle.it-inwent.net/Groups/communication/wstan03/final-report

Please also find the press release for the upcomming workshop in CLE! Distribute them if possible in your region!
http://cle.it-inwent.net/Groups/communication/WSNAM/wsnam1/wsdoc/view



2. Blended Learning Product

The product was demonstrated in last weeks LEARNTEC conference and exhibition in Karlsruhe / Germany (February, 10th-13th 2004). As this is the leading E-Learning conference and exhibition in Europe we suggest to have a look at www.learntec.de
Peter Miez-Mangold from our partner 21 LearnLine AG has uploaded a short report with LEARNTEC impressions:
http://cle.it-inwent.net/Groups/communication/ltc/view.

In the meantime we have published the blended learning product on “Business-related IT Training & Consulting”. If you access the it@ab Partner group in CLE - http://cle.it-inwent.net/Groups/communication -
At the bottom of the page you find a link to download the complete Blended Learning Product or to execute the programmes directly.

According to the existing contracts between the it@ab partner organizations and InWEnt you may download
(1) the standalone CBT offline version
(2) a SCORM 1.2 compliant online version for usage with a learning management system and
(3) all concepts and additional materials.
The discussion forum
http://cle.it-inwent.net/Groups/communication/disc02 will give us all the chance to discuss the product features, business opportunities and so on. We are looking forward to your comments.


3. Status it@ab upgrade program

During their language course in Saarbruecken.

In addition to the language course the Junior Consultants started the Blended Learning phase in December 2003. So far they have participated in three E-Learning courses:
· Open Source Server
· CLE Collaborative Learning Environment
· Technical E-Learning Consulting
According to the Blended Learning Concept they have been working together with telecoaches / facilitators from 21 LearnLine. In addition to the E-Learning / E-Collaboration two classroom trainings took place in January.

In the current month February 2004 the Junior Consultants are participating in a Web-based Training Course on “IT Project Management”. At the end of February they will move from Saarbruecken to Freiburg, where the IT Consultancy course starts at March, 1st, 2004.

Important: We would like to ask all Senior Managers, who have a Junior in Germany today, to support them in the development of their E-Business project. According to the project coaches here in Germany some of the projects have to be adapted in terms of scope and objectives. From the side of INWEnt we would very much appreciate if you stay in a close contact with your Junior and also support them in the development of their specific projects - to the benefit of the Junior Consultant as well as to the benefit of your organization.


4. Short Messages

- InfoDev
We have the confirmation from World Bank that the Submission for the InfoDev Proposal of a group of it@ab
Partners was delivered in time. We expect a decision from World Bank within a very short time.

- CLE
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We are looking forward to the workshop in Windhoek and all further activities!

Best Regards

Siegfried Karwatzki
Senior Project Manager

I n W E n t
Capacity Building International, Germany
Weyerstr. 79-83
D-50676 Köln
Tel. +49-221-2098-253 Fax. +49-221-2098-113
Siegfried.Karwatzki@Inwent.org www.inwent.org

InWEnt is the result of the merger of CDG and DSE