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. ...