education & ICT

29.08.2006 Ghana and the World Bank have signed two separate agreements for a grant of $55 million towards the implementation of the e-Ghana Project and the education for all-fast track initiative.

24.08.2006 NEW DELHI (IPS): When Deepak Jagdish, a young Indian student of computer science, explained to Bill Gates last month the complex navigation and processing system of new software, which mimics the echo location system used by bats, to assist visually challenged individuals move about safely, the founder of Microsoft remarked: ''I have never seen something like this''.

23.08.2006

18.08.2006 From the Simputer to the $ 100 laptop for children, there have been many innovations that have attempted to bridge the digital divide. But these have created a divide of their own, with one group of technologists calling it the “ultimate solution” and another dismissing it as “the scam of the century”

14.08.2006 As technology has created change in all aspects of society, it is also changing our expectations of what students must learn in order to function in the new world economy. Students will have to learn to navigate through large amounts of information, to analyze and make decisions, and to master new knowledge domains in an increasingly technological society

04.08.2006 Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) has been conceived as a government of India national educational movement to achieve the target of universalization of primary education among all children.

03.08.2006 OneWorld South Asia will lead the the first project launched under the Commonwealth Connects programme -- 'Rebuilding After the Tsunami: Using ICTs for Change'. A new Commonwealth initiative to bridge the deepening digital divide across its member countries was unveiled by Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, UK, on 3 August 2006.

01.08.2006 The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) which is based in New Delhi is undertaking an e-Governance project to digitalise all processes and procedures related to administration and admission.