SIs Newslog - Indotel and Ministry of Education initiated contacts to provide Broadband Internet services to public schools in Republica Dominicana

Friday, September 10, 2010

Indotel and Ministry of Education initiated contacts to provide Broadband Internet services to public schools in Republica Dominicana

The Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel) and the Ministry of Education (Minerd) initiated contacts to establish a strategic alliance aimed to carry the Broadband Internet services to schools, through, joint projects and actions that include access to educational content through broadcast and the satellite system, with the assistance of telecommunications companies in the country.

The Minister of Education explained that: "his office has a new vision for the education of children and youth in all schools in the country" and for that, "is implementing a new model of educational intervention, focused on convergence media, which is a Dominican education revolution".

The minister said: "The first step we have taken is the creation and distribution of texts corresponding to initial and basic levels to the fourth degree, which requires the support of the technological means". Also, He said that "many of the schools' laboratories are equipped with computers, multimedia kits consist of electronic whiteboards, screens and projectors; plasma TVs connected via wireless television to receive the contents which are available from the Project PIM Learn TV and the Multimedia portal Learn PIM".

Source: Indotel
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Friday, September 10, 2010 6:15:56 AM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)