Elke Wemhoff has worked in the area of further education and training in development cooperation at GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit/German Development Cooperation) for almost 10 years. She currently works as project manager in the area of digital learning and virtual cooperation at the Academy for International of Cooperation of GIZ.

A big part of her work deals with e-learning capacity development projects in different parts of the world, among them Southeast Asia, Africa and the South Caucasus. During the past one and a half year, she has coordinated among other things the development of e-learning capacities in two GIZ projects in Indonesia. In these projects she has accompanied the training institutions of Indonesian Ministries in developing a digital strategy and in developing and implementing e-learning courses independently, in order to use technology-enhanced education and training to reach the high number of potential learners spread all over the islands of Indonesia.