Dr. Stanford G. Mukasa of the Journalism Department attended the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Education, Training, and Development held in Dakar, Senegal, from May 27 to May 29, 2009.
In his presentation, Dr. Mukasa showcased IUP’s distance education project for Africa, which has so far trained over three hundred journalists, particularly in Somalia.
He also discussed future collaboration with IUP in distance education in journalism and mass communication with officials from the Kenya-based African Virtual University as well as the University of Nairobi. The conference brought more than two thousand participants from around the world.
