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Bangalore as HQ for Technology in Education Initiative: UN
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Friday, 08 July 2005, 19:30 IST
BANGALORE: The UN has chosen Bangalore as headquarters for its ‘technology in education’ initiative.
The UN expressed that the Bangalore has all the qualification to handle this global campaign. Besides, this will be the first ever project undertaken by UN in Bangalore.
To reach out education and community development an exclusive focus., the UN has recently launched a special campaign to promote the Use of technology in education referred as Global e-school and Communities Initiative (Gesci) under Information and communications technologies (ICT) task force.
The role of India, in this project as a workshop to diverse tech-driven educational cum-community development and best practices in order to benefit the world.
Gesci, India programme facilitator Aruna Sundararajan said that the UN has tremendous faith in IndiaÂ’s potential in ICT and its capability of building diverse education and community service models, which will have relevance across the globe.
Corporates like Microsoft, Intel and IBM will be associating the project, as per the source.