Accra Set to Host eLearning Africa 2026, Drawing Ministers From Over 30 Countries
Accra will welcome ministers, deputy ministers and senior policymakers from more than 30 African nations next month for eLearning Africa 2026, the continent’s premier conference on digital education, training and skills development.
The three-day summit, scheduled for 3–5 June, is being held under the patronage of Ghana’s Minister for Education, Haruna Iddrisu, and organised in collaboration with the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), the African Union and UNESCO. More than 1,000 participants from over 80 countries are expected to attend.
Under the theme “Africa’s Time, Africa’s Terms: Learning for Sovereignty, Strength and Solidarity,” the gathering arrives at a moment of intensifying debate over the continent’s digital future, technological dependence, artificial intelligence governance and its position in the global knowledge economy.
A central feature will be the high-level Ministerial Round Table, an invitation-only session bringing together government representatives from across the continent. The round table will focus on sustainable financing for digital learning, AI readiness, digital public infrastructure, regional cooperation, teacher capacity, workforce skills and the future of youth employment.
The scale of political participation — delegations from more than 30 countries — underscores the growing importance governments are attaching to digital learning as they grapple with rapidly expanding youth populations and increasingly digital labour markets.
Over the course of the summit, organisers have scheduled more than 70 sessions featuring over 200 speakers, alongside hands-on workshops, masterclasses, plenary sessions, debates, Learning Cafés and an international exhibition showcasing education and training technologies from across Africa and beyond.
Discussions will examine how African countries can strengthen their capacity to design, govern and scale digital learning systems that reflect local realities. Topics on the agenda include artificial intelligence in education, Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), national digital infrastructure, workplace learning, data governance, digital inclusion, higher education transformation and low-connectivity learning solutions.
The choice of Accra as host city carries particular symbolic weight. Long regarded as a centre of Pan-African exchange and political thought, the Ghanaian capital provides a fitting backdrop for conversations about Africa’s role in shaping its own educational and digital destiny.
The summit is expected to serve not merely as a forum for discussion but as a platform for policy coordination, practical exchange and the forging of cross-border partnerships between governments, institutions, industry players and development partners — the kind of collaborative infrastructure that Africa’s digital transformation will require.
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