Arun-Kumar Tripathi (tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 02:35:46 +0200 (MET DST)
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 02:35:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de> Subject: Bringing educational technology services to developing countries
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Greetings IFETS Community..--this is just what we want and expect....
With some good links..
Alliance of Global Learning <http://www.global-learning.org>
International Education and Research Network <http://www.iearn.org>
UNESCO Learning without frontiers activities
<http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/lwf/lwf_activities.html>
Three groups have pulled their efforts in bringing educational technology
services to 20 developing countries. The initiative, called Alliance for
Global Learning, is made up of World Links for Development, Schools Online
and International Education and Research Network (I*EARN). By helping
countries, such as Lebanon, Peru and Zimbabwe, gain equipment and training
to use the
Internet the Alliance hopes to make the Internet a more interesting place
and less dominated by Western ideas and content.
The project is broad in that it seeks to provide equipment, teacher
training and content. Michael Chertok, director of Schools Online, says the
basic problem of getting schools wired will be a challenge because many
buildings don't have telephone service or a steady electric current.
Touraj Rahimi, president of Schools Online says that Internet access is
very expensive in developing countries. For example, he said a school he
visited in Uganda has a computer lab with 20 machines but was only able to
get online for an hour each day. Alliance members say if telephone service
is a problem, they will look into using wireless technology. The project
will be developed in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. One of the
organizers said: "The Internet should not be an English-only medium. It
should be a way for students and teachers around the world to be able to
communicate."
[SOURCE: CyberTimes, AUTHOR: Pamela Mendels]
(http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/04/cyber/education/21education.html)
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Arun Tripathi
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