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ICT enhance by Microsoft and Education Department in Punjab

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A collaboration was formed between the Education Department, Government of Punjab, that signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft Pakistan under the company's 'Partners in Learning' global programme. The aim of this collaboration is to provide schools, governments and partners with resources, training, expertise and technology blueprints that will help create institutions to better prepare students for life and work in the 21st century. Both parties will work cooperatively to participate in a four-year programme from 2009 till 2013. The programme recognises the value of providing technology to schools and seeks to jointly provide access to and improve use of information and communication technology (ICT) for the support of teaching and learning. It was decided under the MoU that Microsoft's and the Education Department's associates will provide a joint report to the Government of Punjab and Microsoft every 90 days. The report will provide an assessment of the purpose, progress and impact of 'Partners in Learning' programme in Punjab.

Adobe India to work on increasing the turnover through Digital Education

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Software major Adobe India, part of Adobe Systems, aims to garner 25% of its turnover from digital education by calendar 2012. At present, digital education contributes 16% of Adobe's turnover in India. To achieve the targeted growth, Adobe India is taking its products to schools to let students in classes 5-12 familiarise themselves with products like Photoshop.

Auto Quotient Quiz at DTU by Mahindra

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Automobile giant Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) together with Delhi Technological University (DTU), formerly known as Delhi College of Engineering, organized 'Auto Quotient' (AQ), an auto quiz on Friday to create an understanding and knowledge about today's and tomorrow's automobiles and to provide a platform to youngsters to demonstrate their automotive knowledge and share their passion will fellow auto enthusiasts. The AQ quiz was won by the student team of Peeyush Kumar and Ghulam Ghaus from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D) who will now participate in the national level AQ Quiz competition.

After a written preliminary round, six teams were shortlisted for a Live Quizzing round, held at DTU campus. Out of the six teams of auto enthusiasts which made it to the live quiz, three belonged to DTU, two were from IIT Roorkee and one was from IIT Delhi. DTU has been identified by M&M for showcasing the event primarily because a number of automobile innovations such as Hybrid Car, Super-mileage Vehicle, All-Terrain Vehicle and Formula Students Car, have been designed and developed by the DTU (erstwhile DCE), which have won high national and international acclaim in SAE International Competitions. The Mahindra AQ Quiz is being organized in collaboration with NDTV Profit. Those present at the occasion included Mr. Prince Augustin, Sr. Vice President, Human Capital of M&M and Prof. S. Maji, Head of Department, Mechanical Engineering and DTU coordinator for the quiz, who also gave away prizes to the winner.

Lenovo Announces donation for Millennium Villages Project

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An announcement was made by Lenovo today for its donation of $150,000 to the Millennium Promise’s Millennium Villages Project (MVP) that will establish nine new school computer labs and 25 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) kiosks in 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The donation is to support local students and entrepreneurs through the purchase of 148 Lenovo PCs, including the H200 desktop, IdeaPad S12 netbook and ThinkPad SL500 laptop. It will also cover supporting technologies to the Millennium Villages, including installation, technology training and additional ICT equipment. The donation, part of Lenovo’s ‘Hope through Entrepreneurship’ program, will include the cost of installing solar power equipment at off-the-grid schools and kiosk sites. The first shipment of computers is currently on its way to Millennium Villages in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda.

The new ICT kiosks will be operated by local Millennium Village entrepreneurs and offer a sustainable way to supply basic ICT services to rural areas. Kiosk owners will be provided two-to-four computers from Lenovo, as well as technology and business training. Graduate students from Columbia University’s Business School and School of International and Public Affairs will also travel to kiosk sites as interns to help oversee the program and develop sustainable business skills. The nine new school computer labs will be outfitted with five-to-10 Lenovo computers as well as WiFi and 3G Internet access from Ericsson and other MVP supporters, where available. The new labs will play an integral role in supporting the MVP’s School-to-School initiative, a program that uses technology to link schools in the U.S. with Millennium Village schools, enabling them to share a culture and curriculum based on the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals.

Web portal launched for youth in Arab

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A web portal for youth in the Arab region has been launched.

Unesco said this portal's virtual library was being kept 'rich in documents and information' in three languages: English, French and Arabic. This second version of the website has new features like a monthly theme to which the site dedicates an in depth article with documents and specific information resources and a forum linked to it.Another important new feature is a 'news rubric'. This space aims to inform young people from the Arab region about activities, forums, events and all the interesting opportunities that exist in the region.This portal wishes to improve access and participation of young people, and also to strengthen the creative and interactive capacities of young people.This portal is part of the INFOYOUTH programme, a worldwide information network on youth issues.

IT subjects to increase in demand, courtesy Recession

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According to research, teenagers will be more inclined to study IT-related subjects as a consequence of the recession and the rise of consumer technology. The study by supplier Logicalis polled more than 1,000 13-17 year olds across the UK on topics such as personal technology habits and their aspirations for IT in education. The study sought to detect any changes over plans for their education and future careers. Course and career choices are being reviewed due to the impact of the current economic climate, according to the study, with those polled all agreeing that IT, science and engineering provide the best future job prospects. However, boys are the most likely to choose such subjects (37 per cent) in comparison with girls (only 17 %). According to Chris Gabriel, director of solutions at Logicalis, a significant shift is set to occur in the education landscape, where students will be more inclined to take up IT-related subjects. Despite this prediction and the results of the study, according to figures from the Joint Council for Qualification, the Computing and ICT A-levels saw a drop in numbers of more than 20 %this year.

Intel Celebrates 10 Years of Education Initiatives in India by Expanding Opportunities to One Million Teachers

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School teacher Archana Tripathy of Government Upper Primary School, Meeranagar, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, now finds the world a smaller place. She has learned to integrate computers and the internet into her teaching, as a result of which her students incorporate research and high-order thinking skills into their studies. Archana is one of the about one million Indian teachers who is certified under the Intel

Food security course launch in Northeast by IGNOU

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The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is starting special courses on sustainable agriculture and food security for northeastern India. The northeastern region, comprising eight states, covers 7.7 % of India's geographical area but produces only 1.5 % of the country's foodgrains. Seventy percent of the region's 40 million people depend on agriculture and allied sectors, underlining the need for special education in these fields. IGNOU set up a national centre for open and distance learning in research and training in agriculture (ICRTA) in Tripura capital Agartala last November to develop human resources for agriculture and agro-based industries through open and distance learning.

The ICRTA on Monday held a brainstorming session here on capacity building and vocational and non-formal education in agriculture. Top officials of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), IGNOU's regional directors, experts, NGO representatives, forest officials and professionals

from different states of the region took part. The session was chaired by R.K. Samanta, vice-chancellor of the Bidhan Chandra agricultural university in West Bengal. The experts finalised 12 entrepreneurship development courses for seven of the northeastern states, excluding Assam. The new courses, to be conducted in English and local languages, include horticulture nursery management, honey production and processing, value addition in fruits and vegetables, bio-fertiliser and bio-pesticides production, livestock production and management, fish production and management, mushroom production and marketing, production and marketing of turmeric and orchids, pig farming and production and value addition to the famous chillies of the region.


Adobe Announces 2009 Asia Pacific School Innovation Awards

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Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that starting September 15, 2009, the company will begin accepting submissions for the first Adobe

pact iIDB evaluation of ICT in Education in Latin America

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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has commissioned impact evaluation studies of programs expanding the use of computers in classrooms in seven Latin American countries, including Uruguay, the only country in the world where every child in the public education system has access to a computer. Latin American countries have taken the lead in the use of information and communications technologies in education. The studies aim to establish a firm knowledge based on the results of using information and communications technologies in classrooms, with the long-term goal of developing a model that can be replicated successfully at a regional level. According to IDB estimates, by the end of 2015 some 30 million students in Latin America may have personal computers or smart phones in their classrooms to assist them in learning.

In addition to Uruguay, programs that use computers in classrooms have been set up in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Paraguay and Haiti. In Haiti, a $3 million donation from the IDB in 2008 financed a pilot project to give computers to 13,200 children and 500 teachers in 60 primary schools, in partnership with the One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC). The Plan Ceibal, which made Uruguay the first country in the world to give a computer to all students in the classroom, has brought international attention to the South American nation. The IDB could give additional support to Uruguay's program once it gets the results of the impact evaluation study. The Uruguayan initiative was analyzed in seminar, Reinventing the Classroom: Social and Educational Impact of Information and Communications Technologies in Education, attended by around one hundred experts in information and communications technologies (ICTs) from academia, multilateral organizations and governments throughout the region. In addition to Uruguay's experience, other initiatives discussed at the seminar were Portugal's Magellan Project, the Plan San Luis Digital from Argentina's San Luis province, and Brazil's Paran

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