Education

UNESCO and Microsoft are working together to support the use of technology to transform education, reduce poverty and help address the digital divide.

The Competency Framework for Teachers provides standards and guidelines to improve the way teachers use ICT in the classroom.

IDB and Microsoft have established the Youth Fund for Innovation and Social Action to broaden access to ICT and skills training for youth in Latin America.

UNESCO and Microsoft are helping support the creation of a global online network to bring together literacy researchers, experts and other stakeholders. The KINL portal aims to generate knowledge and innovation within the community.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) promotes international cooperation in the fields of education, science, culture and communication.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is the primary source of multilateral financing for economic, social and institutional development projects throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Organization of American States (OAS) works toward strengthening democracy and defending common interests by carrying out mandates established by participating countries.

As part of our public-private partnership with UNESCO they actively support the Microsoft Innovative Teachers Forums. In 2007 they co-sponsored the Asian event in Cambodia and hosted the EMEA event at their headquarters in Paris.

CEDO, set up in 2004, by the World Bank under their Global Development Learning Network, is a long-distance learning and ICT training center in Burkina Faso.

Microsoft’s Partners in Learning (PiL) program is helping Lycee Philippe Zinda Kabore, Burkina Faso’s largest school, by expanding ICT skills. The PiL program draws on partnerships to provide low-cost computer, software and educational content.

The CESAG School of Government trains government employees around the region on how to use and leverage technology and the JFK Schools Low Cost Computing program gives students access to PC and Internet connectivity.

With 25% of their population in school, the Rwandan government needs to ensure they are using technology to not only enhance education in the classroom, but to also enhance the ‘backend’ processes of managing the education system in the country.

This video presents programs to apply ICT to Education in Senegal and Rwanda and comments from government leaders, teachers and students on the impact these programs are having in their countries.