A partnership brought together Silicon Valley, UN agencies and the educational community to take measured aim at the digital divide in global education, avoiding the errors of early attempts to force-feed personal computers on schools ill-equipped to put them to use. The action plan was adopted today at a global forum on ICT (information and communication technologies) in education in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, an industrial and high-tech powerhouse in its own right. Among the objectives of the partnership are to train and certify one million teachers annually at the
