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In a meeting with the Hon’ble President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Motorola demonstrated e-education project at Rashtrapai Bhavan through its wireless broadband solution.

The Seychelles President, Mr James Alix Michel, made an announcement at a recent public consultative meeting for an overall development.

The first phase of Electronic Schools' (e-Schools) program of New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) initiated in sixteen African countries.

Videography is being used in colleges of Tamil Nadu to enhance students' skills.
In the personality development programme held on the college premises under the aegis of the Training and Placement Cell recently, the 60-odd participating students were asked to give a two-minute presentation on themselves.

UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) is planning a series of activities to increase awareness, and support capacity building and informed decision-making related to the provision and use of openly available course content.
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UNESCO Bangkok's Assessment, Information Systems, Monitoring and Statistics (AIMS) Unit hosted and trained officials from the Nepal Ministry of Education (MoE) as part of the Flash Report Method on conducting annual school census at the AIMS office, UNESCO Bangkok.

The United States-based Globus Inc, run by Suhas Gopinath, a 19-year-old entrepreneur from Bangalore has developed the `student management system’.

THE Namibian College of Open Learning (Namcol) has produced a series of electronic lessons that will help students studying physical science.

Facilities of EDUSAT classroom technology will be extended to 13 high schools and higher secondary schools in Balussery Assembly constituency in Kozhikode, Kerala.

The Rajasthan Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft Corporation of India Private Limited for a five-year-long computer education programme in schools under "Project Shiksha -- Empowering the future''.

Makerere University, Uganda is to start its first ever e-learning programme in an effort to promote information and communication technology (ICT) among the students and reduce congestion in the lecture rooms of the university.

In a further step towards providing world class infrastructure to students and their parents, the Delhi Public School (DPS) Mathura Road has launched a web portal at which the latest about the students' progress besides other useful information to them and their parents will be posted.

Within eight weeks of the announcement made by NEPAD about its e-School Demonstration Project,African children have started getting direct access to the rich repository of information, through the acquisition of ICT skills.

In a project to promote education in Africa, in which eighty per cent of Form Four leavers would be computer literate by 2008, Education minister George Saitoti said that Information Communication Technology (ICT) would be taught in teachers training colleges to prepare them for the project.

To promote the further use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the field of education, a one-day conference on 'ICT enabled Distance Teacher Education' was organised by Tamilnadu Open University.

Digiscape Gallery, training house in e publishing based in Chennai is offering 240 young publishing aspirants a one-year full time PG Diploma course.