success stories archives

23.04.2002 Web caching, in conjunction with related technologies, can address the problem of the digital divide, even in places with no telephone connection. SchoolWeb is providing to schools information at high speed, using the WorldSpace system in conjunction with Advanced Interactive's broadcast caching technology.

23.04.2002 This article is about the creating of a new private college in Brazil - Faculdade Pitágoras - that has taken a very innovative approach to teaching including a "virtual classroom," styled after web-based courses.

23.04.2002 This article describes Aulas Galileo technical education workshops and how the use of lower-end technologies has had a higher-end impact on the nature and profile of technical education in Uruguay.

23.04.2002 The southern Indian town of Pathinettangudi, some 35 km from Madurai, appears as just another underprivileged village. However, a silent IT revolution is brewing in the tiny hamlet, where the illiterate farm workers use webcams, voice mail and email regularly.

22.04.2002 A project that has used information and communication technologies to deliver education in Uttar Pradesh, India, has helped girls who had never been to school, complete their primary education in just 10 months.

22.04.2002 Mark Moore tells the story of how a community-minded group with limited technical expertise and no previous experience launched a community connectivity initiative in eastern Uganda.

22.04.2002 Attempts are being made in many parts of the world to develop strategies to link ICT with poor people in rural and urban. Government agencies, Non-Governmental Organizations and various institutions are involved in initiating knowledge empowerment through ICT.

22.04.2002 Save the Children, the UK's leading international children's charity, is using the Internet to allow young people in the UK a glimpse of the stark realities of life for young Palestinian refugees. Today, the final lessons for the teachers' section of the highly acclaimed and innovative Eye to Eye website will be launched on www.savethechildren.org.uk/eyetoeye/, providing UK students the opportunity to explore the lives of their peers in the Middle East, while developing their media literacy, communication and technology skills.