Since its conception in 2006, the Global Engagement Summit has hosted undergraduates and recent graduates from over 40 counties and 50 universities, with more than 35 global nonprofits for five days of exchange and capacity building at Northwestern University, in Chicago, IL. Through workshops, direct mentorships with nonprofit leaders, and outcome opportunities, GES delegates develop projects in microfinance, community development, global health, sustainable engineering, and many other change-b more...

Vision:
YALDA envisions an international network of inspired, empowered and proactive young African leaders who hold influential decision-making positions, are running their own organizations or companies, culminating in a prosperous and developed African continent.

Mission:
YALDA provides a forum for youth on the African continent and those abroad with a commitment to the welfare of Africa. By networking with professionals, mentors and each other, members will increase their capacity to t more...

The Program Medellín Digital strengthens its commitment with the Digital Schools. The campaign “Leave your bad habits” is promoting the good use and respect in the 15 Digital Classroom installed by the program. It is a 40 minutes video that sends messages such as:”take care of what belongs to you and your community”, “the future starts with the present”.
The Program will keep working to make Medellin a Digital City, and will inaugurate 18 new Digital Schools by the end of 2008, and more...

'The impact of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the economic, social, cultural, political and individual spheres of life has dramatically transformed societies the world over. And in this evolving world, the younger generation seems to be more comfortable and adept at using ICTs to further expand their knowledge.
Demographically, about 85% of the world’s youth (between 15 and 25 years of age) currently reside in developing countries, and the numbers are growing in many parts more...

Tomorrow’s Youth Organization (TYO) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that works in disadvantaged areas of the Middle East, enabling children, youth and parents to realize their potential as healthy, active and responsible family and community members. TYO’s first center in Nablus, Palestine engages residents of the city’s three refugee camps and other at-risk neighborhoods through 4 main initiatives:

Core Child Program
TYO offers non-formal education classes in art, Engl more...

The total cost of ownership (TCO) model developed by Vital Wave Consulting is designed to help education officials better understand all of the costs involved in creating affordable computing opportunities in schools. In order to
evaluate how the model works in practice, Vital Wave conducted extensive field research in four representative Indian states, visiting a wide range of public and private schools in four states and at all grade levels. Researchers
interviewed teachers, principals, admi more...

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After introducing the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop to the teachers and then the third and fourth grade students involved in our OLPC pilot project in Ouéléssébougou, Mali, we finally got to see how exactly the kids use the XO laptops. We found out in the fifth and sixth weeks of the program lots of good news: the kids love the XO, especially since they have now started taking the small green laptops home at night. In addition they have really taken more...

Google has announced a competition that would fund upto 5 projects with a budget of $2million per project. This is what Google says about the project...

'Why this project?

Never in history have so many people had so much information, so many tools at their disposal, so many ways of making good ideas come to life. Yet at the same time, so many people, of all walks of life, could use so much help, in both little ways and big.

In the midst of this, new studies are reinforcing the simple w more...

On June th 27th UNESCO launched the book 'Ceibal in the society of the 21st' CEIBAL Plan is a great bet of Uruguay for equity, democratization of knowledge and improving education. According to the schedule, in 2009 it will finish the delivery of portable personal computers OLPC to all primary schoolchildren and teachers in the country, while running a process of updating the education system to the reality of the times.
Children are receiving owned computers for use at school, and also in thei more...

"It was test deployment day for Hassounah and his team from the One Laptop Per Child project, and the students were interacting with their new laptops--or any laptop--for the very first time. For Hassounah, who recalled his time with the Nigerian students during an interview with CNET News.com, the day rewarded more than a year of hard work."