Digital inclusion addressed at St. Petesburg International Economic Forum 2017
Last June 2nd, during the plenary session of St. Petesburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF2017), Russian president, Vladimir Putin, announced its commitment to increase the country’s efforts to promote digital literacy through modernizing current educational programs. According to the speech, increasing…
Infocomm Media Development Authority empowers vulnerable population in Singapore with access to connectivity and digital devices
The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) of Singapore partnered with a group of private organizations to provide 900 low-income households with access to broadband services and technology devices. The purpose of this initiative is to promote digital inclusion and empower…
Four cohorts witness success of Digital Skills and Bike Thrills digital literacy program
“Digital skills and Bike Thrills” is the name of a program implemented in Philadelphia, United States of America, to teach digital skills to citizens in order to support them to sign up for using bike-share services. The program, created by…
Some best practices for teaching digital literacy in college
A recent article from Ed Tech Magazine written by Laura A. Pasquini, lecturer with the Department of Learning Technologies in the College of Information at the University of North Texas, provided four major recommendations for teaching digital literacy for college…
Digital Inclusion workshop for Seniors in 9 de Julio, Argentina
The “9 de Julio” municipality in Argentina joined a series of efforts taking place in Argentina to provide workshops to empower seniors through digital inclusion. According to the director of the local Office for Integral Development, “today technology, and mostly…
UNESCO-Pearson announces winters of “Initiative for Literacy: Improved Livelihoods in a Digital World”
The winners of UNESCO-Pearson’s call for case studies on “Initiative for Literacy: Improved Livelihoods in a Digital World” were announced in the end of May 2017. The organization received 130 applications from 60 countries and selected 14 case studies to…
Second edition of CódigoX 2017 to attract Mexican girls and women into STEM fields
The second edition of “CódigoX 2017: girls and women, the future of technology” took place during the first week of June in Mexico to address the gender divide in the field of ICTs. This initiative, organized by the Office of…
Ministry of Education calls for proposals to empower students and teachers in Dominican Republic
The Ministry of Education of the Dominican Republic launched “One student, one computer; one teacher, one computer” initiative to provide primary and secondary students, as well as professors with access to digital devices and ICT training. During its first…
Second phase of UNESCO’s initiative will provide 50,000 women in Nigeria with ICT skills
The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched the second phase of its project to empower 50,000 girls and women from low-performing junior secondary schools in Bauchi, Nigeria with ICT skills in 2017. This initiative will provide continuity…
Mobile Public Computer Center brings digital literacy to Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands Next Generation Network, Inc. (viNGN and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration launched a new initiative to increase access to digital technologies through a Mobile Public Computer Center (PCC) lab. At this hub, people from the Virgin…