1 WORKING PAPER NO. 1 Using ICT for Teacher Professional Development in Namibia February 2006 WORKING PAPER NO. 1, 2006 About infoDev's working papers series: These short papers represent work commissioned by infoDev that has not been through infoDev's peer review and formal publication processes. infoDev makes such reports available as informal 'working papers' to share information or ideas about a given topic, in case doing so may be of any interest or utility to practitioners working in related fields. Namibia appears well ahead of its African counterparts in terms of its use of ICT in instruction and teacher education, its level of ICT infrastructure, and its commitment to ICT for teacher and student learning. While conclusions about successes in this area premature, Namibia's story to date offers useful lessons for other African nations.