Sustainable education - The Hindu

Sustainable education - The Hindu: "ricsson has expanded the realm of its global education initiative ‘Connect To Learn’, launched in 2010 with the Earth Institute of Columbia University and Millenium Promise, by introducing it in India this year. Partnering with three globally prominent non-governmental organisations, Plan International, Smile Foundation and Pratham Education Foundation, it aims at providing quality education to underprivileged students through mobility, broadband and cloud solutions.

A subsidiary programme of Ericsson’s ‘Technology For Good’ which also includes several humanitarian projects like helping the refugees in Africa and collaborating with the United Nations for tele-communication services during disaster relief operations, ‘Connect To Learn’ focuses more on education of the girl child. The emphasis is also on providing vocational training and secondary education for the underprivileged.

In a recent conference held in the Capital, Elaine Weidman-Grunewald, Vice President, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility, Ericsson, said, “Connect To Learn uses Ericsson’s core business strengths to access content in low bandwidth environments and deliver content through mobile broadband. Thus, using mobility, broadband and cloud solutions, we hope to set up virtual classrooms in the remote villages of the world where the teachers will be trained appropriately to use the equipment. We have deployments in rural Millennium Villages in Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, and Senegal, as well as Ethiopia and Rwanda. India for us is extra special, because we have a huge technological base here and the Open Source Cloud Solution was developed by the Indian technicians which shall be used for the future global programmes as well. The existing programmes will also soon convert.”"



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