posted on 08/26/2010 - 02:16
The East African countries now have an additional, fast Internet connection. The East Africa Submarine Cable system (EASSy) provides a total bandwidth of 3.84 TBit/s and has recently been launched. Originally, only 640 Gbit/s have been planned. Overall, the operators invested 235 million U.S. dollars. The German KfW Development Bank contributed 13.2 million U.S. dollars to this project. African members hold a clear majority of 92 percent in the consortium.
About landing-points in South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Comoros, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti and Sudan, the ground...
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posted on 08/20/2010 - 23:52
Today we want to call your attention to the Unesco King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the use of information and communication technologies in education.
Every year, this prize rewards projects and activities that demonstrate best practice as well as creative use of ICTs to enhance learning, teaching and overall educational performance. This year’s theme "Digital Literacy: Preparing Adult Learners for Lifelong Learning and Flexible Employment" highlights the critical role of adult education in the development of an inclusive, participatory and sustainable society....
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posted on 08/20/2010 - 22:37
The 24th ICDE World Conference, hosted by Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia, and supported by the Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Indonesia will be held 2–5 October, 2011 in Bali, Indonesia. The conference theme will be “Expanding Horizons – New Approaches to Open and Distance Learning (ODL)”, and will focus on issues from organizing distance education to the role of ODL in building the knowledge-based society.
This conference will be...
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posted on 08/10/2010 - 15:48
At the time of globalization and internationalization intercultural know-how becomes more and more important. The intercultural experiences of many students are so far mostly unseen, although it could provide a great resource.
Therefore we are proud to present MentoDue as an official partner from ScienceConnect.
MentoDue-Intercultural addresses itself at students and graduates with an interest in intercultural cooperation of all the faculties of the University of Duisburg-Essen, who
- want to enhance their intercultural experiences
- want to reflect their knowledge and...
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posted on 08/05/2010 - 15:53
Today we would like to present you the Tunisian startup „e-Taalim.com“, which already promoted Science-Connect on their platform.
“e-Taalim” is a free and independent e-Magazine offering insightful information, trends and initiatives about e-learning and blended learning and more generally about the use of ICT and media for lifelong learning as well as data on educational institutions whether they are academic or vocational, educational resources and education technology solutions.
The main objectives of « e-Taalim.com » are as follows:...
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posted on 07/20/2010 - 15:26
We found an interesting article about Cloud Company, which we don't want to hide from you:
How social media and digital working environments are really changing management, collaboration and organizations?
This is the question that is most interesting to me and I believe, very transformational in the long-term on how we relate to each other and how things get done.
I was happy to work on this question for a Finnish telecom operator, Elisa together with their VP of Corporate Customers, Pasi Mäenpää. As we know, the traditional operator business of selling subscriptions...
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