This article highlights inherent conflicts between technology industry incentives and a new social contract for education, while arguing for safeguards to mitigate the risk of technology industry engagement in education governance. Business strategies often utilize economies of scale, standardization, and internationalization to maximize profits.…

Claims all African governments seek to modify their inherited colonial system of education to meet the needs of an emerging nation, and those efforts produce a reform document but do not result in reform. States attention must be given to education reform, resources, structures, determiners of change, management, and implementation methods. (NL)