Dear Alan/Others
Here in Sri Lanka (South Asia) we have a project called Digital Bridge, in which we connect thousand rural schools with the satellite technology. We are working with the Ministry of Education (MoE) of Sri Lanka and there is a dedicated educational channel which telecast programmes on local school syllabus. We have developed contents in local languages (Sinhalese and Tamil) and schools can select the language according to their preference. The high quality, educational contents developed by the Ministry of Education, are telecasted by Dialog TV (a company of Dialog Telekom) to the rural schools. Sri Lanka, being a developing country has some infrastructure issues in the rural schools. In some schools we do not have qualified teachers to teach subjects such as Mathematics, Science, English, etc. Also those schools are lacking with library facilities, science lab facilities, computer lab, etc. So in our Digital Bridge project we have selected those rural schools and trying to deliver quality education using the technology as an attempt the bridge the rural digital divide. Best regards, Sameera Wijerathna Co-ordinator CSR (ICT) Dialog Telekom PLC 3rd Floor, DTV Building, 275, Nawala Road, Nawala. Sri Lanka. Mob: +94 - 777 - 334199 Tel: +94 - 777 - 088491 Fax: +94 - 117 - 694343 Web: http://www.dialog.lk/ Blog: http://ict4d-in-srilanka.blogspot.com<http://ict4d-in-srilanka.blogspot.com/> -----Original Message----- From: digitaldivide-boun...@digitaldivide.net [mailto:digitaldivide-boun...@digitaldivide.net] On Behalf Of Paperless Homework Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:43 PM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: [DDN] Nationwide implementation of ICT in mass Education.... Hello all DDN members, We wish to find out if there is any member in DDN that is involved in using ICT in mass Education that covers entire country (not those which cover a few schools or only those helping only a small section of the country) to close the digital divides of rural and urban schools. This is what digital divides Network should be looking for. If so, we would love to learn more what system or technology you are using. Is there any technology available able to solve any country/s digital divides problems faced by practically most developing countries? In developed countries... is there any country able to provide uniform system for an entire country? If so, hope you can share with us all. If not , why is that so? What are the main challenges preventing such? Regards Alan www.paperlesshomework.com Solutions you never thought possible to close the digital divides. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
