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Taking a grassroots approach, YTF implements community-based technology programs by first gauging the needs of the community and understanding how technology can be used to enhance their lives, create jobs, reverse urban migration and lead to self-sustaining communities. Read The Full Article
Today, blind U.S. Postal Service customers can buy stamps, check ZIP codes and perform other transactions at an Internet site USPS calls its “cyberspace post office that never closes.” Read The Full Article
The end result will enable individuals to increase the size of the text on the web pages they access, quiet a distracting background, turn off flashing images, change the color for better contrast, adjust the keyboard to overlook typing errors and avoid other features that now make the Internet hostile territory for many seniors or […]
Geneva, 17 June 2002 — The transformation to the Information Society is every bit as profound as the movement from agrarian to industrial societies and just as in the past, such change has led to winners and losers. “Some countries have prospered, while others have fallen behind,” Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, […]
The board members stressed their highest priority is to establish a long-term method of funding public higher education at predictable and adequate levels. Short-term imperatives, however, focus on sustaining current operating budget funding for 2003-2005. Read the Full Article
Electronic Tuition Rates: Sensible for States and Students Governor Roy E. Barnes, Georgia Chairman, Southern Regional Education Board 592 10th St. N.W. Atlanta, GA 30318 (404) 875-9211 www.sreb.org We have 21st-century distance learning and a 19th-century approach to selling it to adults who need it. Arbitrary in-state and out-of-state tuition charges don’t serve students, colleges […]
U.S. government agencies, the thinking goes, could save taxpayers perhaps $1 billion a year in licensing fees by dumping proprietary products sold by Microsoft and Oracle in favor of more reliable, free software alternatives.
President Bush has proposed eliminating $47.5-million for Community Technology Centers, run by the Department of Education, and the Technology Opportunities Program, run by the Department of Commerce. Read The Full Article
Farm workers spend more time navigating through strawberry plants than they do the World Wide Web, but now a new program is helping them gain computer skills, letting them keep up with their school-age children. Read The Full Article
Geneva, 17 May 2002 — Women have expressed overwhelming support for the importance of Information and Communication Technology (ICTs). A survey of women from all regions of the world Read the Press Release