The education landscape across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) varies a great deal. One of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals is to achieve a situation where boys and girls everywhere can gain a full primary education. Emerging markets have modest infrastructures to begin with. Governments and organisations such as the World Bank want to see developing countries exploit the opportunity of the knowledge revolution, achieve education for all, and avoid being left behind in a digital divide. Microsoft is committed to supporting emerging markets as a key part of realising the vision of a 21st-centrury education for all.  | The African Pathfinder project has grown from an innovative partnership in Namibia to a transferable blueprint for capacity building across Africa.
|  | The Partners in Learning initiative supports the provision of equipment, skills, and know-how to help develop sustainable education solutions. This includes programmes to supply refurbished hardware to emerging markets, and helping curriculum development to support skills advancement. |  | Learning and Skills Development for Emerging Markets is a whitepaper that outlines Microsoft programmes focused on learning and skills development, successful strategies for helping national governments to build prosperous knowledge economies, and resources and materials for policymakers and officials in emerging and developing countries.
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