Icom's Centre: innovating services for the handicapped

This centre's objective is to promote research and the development of innovative solutions (educational or technological techniques and their distribution with a view to encouraging the social and/or professional integration of the handicapped).

ICT facilitates access to care

It is in Africa that epidemics are the most violent and deadly, such as AIDS which has taken the lives of many victims, or tuberculosis that has reappeared in various areas.

In Kenya, women are at the heart of learning about sustainable development.

Most habitants of poor, rural and remote areas of Kenya have been persuaded that ICT could aid their socio-economic development.

FSN's second big project of 2008

1000 telemedicine posts for Africa

Franck Ferreyrolles, from NEO, a distributor of HP’s mobile classrooms

The PrimTICE programme, created in 2005 by the Minister for Education, has the mission to develop ICTE usage in primary schools, thanks to the catalogue of educational scenarios on the PrimTICE website, available for teachers. Together with the PrimTICE programme, HP has committed itself to transforming teaching and education through information technology. In 2007, the most innovative projects proposed were put forward for academic inspection and analysed with criteria from the programme. HP gives material donations to primary schools. A mobile class consists of 10 PC’s, 1PC compatible interactive board, a printer, a camera, a wifi hub, various accessories and a mobile trolley.

Pascal Bouche, Creator of Web2child

Web2child, launched on the last anniversary of the Internet, is a social education network that is a 100% open source accessible to anyone over 6 years old.

Florence Durand Tornare: founder of “Villes Internet” (the Internet City website) and director of the “School Internet” project label

Interview of Florence Durand-Tornare, director of "Villes-Internet" (Internet Cities)

The report of the e-Educ study regarding ICTE commissioned by Xavier Darcos was submitted on 21 May 2008 by the author, Jean Mounet, President of Syntec computing. Five proposals have until now been retained for a showcase in schools and businesses from the start of the next academic year. The “School Internet” label is one of the projects that was supported by Xavier Darcos.

Alexandre Titin Snaider: Director of development at Promethean

Promethean, a business set up by six teachers in 1996, guides the educational world and local communities in the modernisation of schools through the invention, promotion and introduction of collaborative and interactive tools, (interactive whiteboards, voting systems, training tools, online educational community). Promethean works with partners, both public and private, who are sensitive to the educational investment in children in sustainable development, and supports TIC 21.

Pierre Perez: General Secretary of “Délégation aux Usages de l’Internet” - DUI (the Internet Usage commission)

Pierre Pérez, General Secretary of the “Délégation aux Usages de l’Internet”, has the mission to propose the necessary measures needed to intensify development in technological society, to benefit all everywhere.

Jean Pouly, Director of the World Agency for Digital Solidarity

Jean Pouly, director of the World Agency for Digital Solidarity, which assists the creation of many projects that work to abolish digital divide and to encourage solidarity, sustainable development and education.

Campus TIC 21: ACIDD reflects more fully on education in sustainable development

At ACIDD, Marceau Bertero-Niel is coordinating CampusTIC21, a new programme of education in sustainable development. He discusses here what is at stake concerning ACIDD’s new undertaking.