Integrated Technology Group (ITG) announced the launch of its EMIS Africa Initiative for Education Management Information System in Africa. Integrated Technology Group is a dynamic, innovative, and technology driven group of companies that specialize in providing IT solutions for the education and public sectors.
The EMIS Africa Initiative will provide a unified and integrated education management information system solution in Africa in order to provide real, accurate, up to date and relevant data to assist in supporting the development of education; and providing support to the officials in their decision making process and their various programs, which would the basis for operations solutions, planning and decision-making in all parts of the African continent.
President & CEO of Integrated Technology Group (ITG) Mr. Walid Tahabsem in a press conference commented that EMIS Africa will serve as a common system platform for major programs, which will be an opportunity for countries to share experiences and be the basis of a real comparison between the standards, the results and the impact of on the education and development policies related.
Mr. Tahabsem commented that this initiative has been developed within a ten-year plan for the full implementation divided in to different phases while the most important phase would be the basic phase, which is planned to accomplish with more than 30% of the solution deployment in Africa by the year 2015; by the coordination of all the stages with various parties within different countries.
The first phase, which is gathering all information required to begin the technical analysis, has started