February 2003 Insights Education
Issue #1
Sites for Sore eyes
The UN
Millennium development goals site shows a snapshot of different countries’
current access to ICTs. One site which considers the link between ICT
indicators and education is the Global
Distance Education Net knowledge guide to distance education. For
analysis of Internet connections see www.nua.ie/surveys/how_many_online/
and http://demiurge.wn.apc.org/africa/
which focuses on the situation in Africa.
The use of ICTs in education in Africa is explored at the Network
Startup Resource Center, while Africa
Action’s sub-site offers news and links on the use of technologies.
The Communication Initiative has two particularly useful sites: www.comminit.com/radio/
looks at the general use of radio for development or see www.comminit.com/hivaids/
for information on the use of radio for HIV/AIDS education.
A database of education, development and ICT projects can be accessed
via the Development
Gateway. Other useful sites include the Global
Information Networks for Education, which builds online learning communities
for education professionals and the Association
for Progressive Communications, an international network of civil
society organisations working for development through the use of ICTs.
The International Education
and Resource Network helps teachers and young people from 4000 schools
in 100 countries work online. The World
Links site and thinkquest’s
site link students and teachers with their peers in 26 developing
countries to explore learning together via the Internet. The Global
School House also has examples of more than 750 online collaborative
projects.
Free software is available from www.opensource.org
and www.linux.com and
Computer Aid International
sends recycled computers to developing countries. For examples of the
private sector’s involvement in ICT training and provision, see
the Cisco
Least Developed Countries initiative, the IBM
education initiative and Hewlett-Packard’s
education services. Finally, www.iblf.org
is the Corporate Social Responsibility Forum’s comprehensive site
of international private sector involvement in social development.
Martha Burkle
T: +52 (33) 3669 3000
mm_burkle@infosel.net.mx
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