Tag Archive for ‘E-Learning’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'E-Learning'

LIRNEasia’s Mobile Benchmarks (South Asia and Southeast Asia) and Broadband Benchmarks Report for October 2008 has been released. Click HERE for more information.

Access to ICTs in Indonesia: LIRNEasia research quoted

Nirmali Sivapragasam

on November 22, 2007

The Jakarta Post [PDF version]

Indonesia is striving to maintain its commitment to information and communication technology (ICT) for the education system, a top government official said.

“Seventy percent of our vocational high schools, 30 percent of senior high schools and 20 percent of junior high schools are equipped with computer laboratories,” Education Minister Bambang Sudibyo announced at the opening of the sixth International Symposium on Open, Distance and E-Learning in Kuta, Bali, on Wednesday.

The government has also distributed television-based Televisi Edukasi equipment to some 35,198 junior high schools, and has developed thousands of programs comprising on and offline learning activities, TV broadcast materials and audio programs throughout Indonesia.

“Globalization has pushed the development and utilization of information and communication technology in the education sector,” Bambang said.

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Tags: Bali, Bambang Sudibyo, communication technology, E-Learning, Indonesia, Kuta.

“Living in the Information Society” - NCPAG Conference in Philippines (April 2007)

Divakar Goswami

on January 14, 2007

The Philippine ICT Researchers Network through the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG) of the University of the Philippines will be hosting the first international conference on “Living the Information Society: The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on People, Work and Communities in Asia” which will be held on April 23-24, 2007 at the Renaissance Hotel, Makati City, Philippines (program attached). Early registration (download form) for the Conference is now open and entitles the participant to a 20% discount.

This conference funded by the International Development Research Centre – Canada, is being organized in support of the growing community of researchers and practitioners conducting research on the social, cultural, psychological, economic, political, and other transformations brought about by information and communications technologies (ICT) in the Asia-Pacific…

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Tags: Asia, Asia-Pacific, Canada, cellular telephone, Cheryll Soriano, communications technologies, Conference Secretariat, E-Learning, Information Society, International Development Research Centre, National College, Online Relationships, Philippines, Public Administration, Renaissance Hotel, United States, University of the Philippines, USD.

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