The Prime Minister of Ireland, Bertie Ahern, on Tuesday launched the operations in India of the Global e-School and Communities Initiative, a multilaterally funded organisation that supports enhancing the reach and quality of education by deploying Information and Communication technologies.
The Dublin-headquartered GeSCI, founded by the UN ICT Task Force, aims at facilitating the attainment of Millennium Development Goals and would operate in India at the national and state levels by assisting government and other partners to implement ICT in education strategies and programmes.
Launching the GeSCI operations, Ahern said it was an important UN initiative, of which Ireland was a founding member together with Sweden, Switzerland and Canada, and would add value to the initiatives in India.
He said India was in focus of the new initiative and spoke of the "enormous potential" that the entire region held for ICT initiatives.
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