ICT Support UNESCO launches an online training platform

UNESCO launches an online training platform. UNESCO. Online March 2007. …open platform ... to provide users with training and capacity-building resources on literacy and other subjects. … a space to share training material. … advocates open content in non-formal education. Most of the training programmes have open licenses which make them accessible to all for teaching and learning. Besides literacy, the subjects covered include computers, business, environment and community development. … there is much scope to increase the use of information and communication technologies in development, for both communities and individuals. …

Update from IndustryGoogle Gives Apps To Rwanda, Kenya.

Google Gives Apps To Rwanda, Kenya. WebProNews. Online March 2007. . ...African students (and some government officials) will receive Google Apps, which might be described as a sort of Google prize pack: “free communications tools including email, shared calendars, instant messaging and word processing under their institutions’ domain names.” 70,000 people should gain access to the technology in its initial rollout, with more to follow in later stages. …

ICT SupportThe New Frontier of Education: Web 3D.

The New Frontier of Education: Web 3D. Vicki Davis. Techlearning blog. Online March 2007. . ... a new realm available for creating virtual worlds and populating them with virtual people who can act in very life-like settings. The world is called Second Life and when we log on, we create and name avatars, our online personas. … there are ways to learn more about all of this and when we do, we can see what amazing potential there is for education. ...

Update from EgyptBit-by-Bit: A Story of Bytes and Books.

Bit-by-Bit: A Story of Bytes and Books. Andrew Bossone. Business Today Egypt. Online March 2007. The world’s IT giants are lining up to buy into the Egypt’s e-schools initiative —two are even feuding for a piece of the pie. ...Some say it takes a village to raise a child, but what about the whole country raising one? That’s the idea behind putting technology in schools under the Egyptian Education Initiative (EEI), which began at the 2006 World Economic Forum in Sharm El-Sheikh. … there are some hurdles to clear, not the least of which appears to be an organizational one: Microsoft says it has a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Ministries of Education and Higher Education to provide a communications platform for schools, but in November 2006, arch-rival Google also announced an MOU with the ministries. ...