From the beginning of the computer age, scientists, educators, and policy makers have looked at the computer as an agent of change in education. With its amazing capacity to expand the human mind, by assisting in computation or facilitating exploration – no other technology can rival its data processing abilities. And put to work in education, the computer promises an unparalleled way to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of learning models, and increase the impact of the (...)
Kenneth L. Kraemer, Jason Dedrick, Prakul Sharma
Communications of the ACM
Vol. 52 No. 6, Pages 66-73
10.1145/1516046.1516063
At the world Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 2005, Nicholas Negroponte unveiled the idea of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a $100 PC that would transform education for the world’s disadvantaged schoolchildren by giving them the means to teach themselves and each other. He estimated that up to 150 million of these laptops could be shipped annually by (...)
Edited by:
Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies
Wanjira Kinuthia, Georgia State University
Wallace Taylor, The University of the West Indies
Published 2009
In many international settings, developing economies are in danger of declining as the digital divide becomes the knowledge divide. This decline attacks the very fabric of cohesion and purpose for these regional societies delivering increased social, health, economic and sustainability problems. The examples in this (...)
Mobile technology has become increasingly popular in Africa. Google wants to encourage the local development and use of creative mobile tools. One of the ways to promote growth in this market is to support university-level computer science programs that give students the skills they need to innovate mobile applications, as well as other technologies.
Google is working with the MIT Africa Information Technology Initiative (AITI), an organization that sends MIT students to (...)
Drawing on analysis from leading industry experts and international institutions, this report by ITU (International telecommunication Union) highlights some harsh realities for the global ICT industry and considers how the industry can position itself for recovery in the future.
This Report explores the impact of the financial crisis. Among the many insights contributed to the Report, several key findings emerge: a) Funding issues are unlikely to be resolved until the banking sector is (...)
This list of ICT tools was crowd sourced from individual educationalists and not companies. The question ’What Indispensable ICT tools do you use in education’ was asked. The list is not meant to be exhaustive. For more information, see: Indispensable ICT Tools for teachers
by Tim Unwin UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, Royal Holloway, University of London
When visiting African universities, I often hear the comment that it is difficult and expensive to access research publications in the latest international journals. This observation is then frequently used as an excuse to explain why many papers submitted by African academics to international journals do not contain substantial numbers of references to the existing research literature.
In response to such arguments, I (...)
How can visually challenged persons better their personality, learn the power of positive thinking and also get management lessons? Hundreds of books on these subjects stacking shelves of major book stores may not be of much help to them. But, an Ahmedabad-based IT firm Third Generation Resources Ltd has decided to mentor lakhs of visually impaired people across the globe, through voice-based Internet learning. Management expert and motivational speaker Dr Shailesh Thaker, the promoter of (...)
