Mtandao Afrika (MAf) is a Pan African Program, a new style of learning that aims at the promotion of Internet-based education in Africa. It is a collaborative program targeting learners in the age of 12-19.MAf promotes the adoption of methodologies and approaches that enhance the educational process using ICT to empower youth to become critical learners and thinkers. MAf encourages collaboration among African learners in the development of African knowledge networks through creating their educational entries. A contest is held periodically where the students and coaches’ work together in teams in order to develop an educational website, at the end of the period, judging takes place and the candidate winners are invited to a youth camp where the final judging takes place along with some intensive training programs and other cultural visits.

Mtandao Afrika (MAf) is a learner-centered educational program, which promotes learning through collaborative research and enhances technical and communication skills among African learners. Our objectives are to allow African students to:

1- Learn to work in international teams acquiring collaborative skills and creating a global educational network

2- Learn how to conduct research and acquire investigative skills

3- Acquire technical skills and educational knowledge by producing websites to be used by fellow students in schools and research

4- learn to understand and appreciate diversity

5- Equip African learners with employable skills and preparing them for the work force being able to be active contributors to the knowledge based economy

Moreover, we look forward to:

1- Building bridges among African students throughout the continent and  allowing for cross cultural exchange and understanding

2- The promotion of the African heritage and culture through creating existence on the internet

3- Raising awareness of current issues and problems in Africa

4-reviving some of the African language and dialects that are on their way to extinction

5. Equiping African youth with employable skills that would allow them to compete and perform in the global job markets

Mtandao Afrika (MAf) programme is a web-based programme that aims to form a network of African participants. The program makes use of the ICT’s most popular utility, the Internet, being web-based. The complete program cycle is automated and programmed having an online registration system for the participants to join, online team’s member finder, and communication between students is through the up-to-date Internet messaging systems and finally, the judging process and entries screening is also done online. Furthermore  the ICT’s utility, the Internet, is a tool of communication, collaboration and teamwork for the African students where they not only enhance their skills but allow them to develop new set of skills as project management, time management, meeting deadlines while working across boundaries of space and time, while acquiring new set of skills.

Small group organizations with regional networks would be able to replicate the project. Also, the governments’ endorsement and support is very important for such a project to achieve a sustainable mode of operation  allowing for the program to be  promoted in schools and universities.

Mtandao Afrika (MAf) is a Pan African program that encourages African learners to work together creating educational networks and producing web-based content in the African local languages. The ongoing activities of MAf are visiting the schools and universities to promote the program, signing agreements with more ministries of education through Africa and finally producing training programs for students and coaches, introducing and delivering  the ICT basic skills training program while emphasising how to make use of the skills acquired to achieve the program's objectives and reaching out to a great number of Africans.