Information and communication technologies offer immense possibilities for basic education in Africa. We believe that such technologies, rather than deepen North south divide, will in fact offer unexpected yet promising answer to Africa's development.
Here are some leads we hope to follow:

• Distance education
• Tools in African languages to check grammar and spelling, for textual production.
• Automatic translation into African languages.
• Voice recognition of African language texts.
• Localization of cellular phone interfaces, so that they be available in national languages.