Korea (Rep. of) - Korea Communications Commission, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
Activity:
E-learning sevices through IPTV
Activity description:
KCC (Korea Communications Commission) and MEST (Ministry of Education, Science and Technology) decided to build IPTV network in schools in 2009 and several local government has set IPTV study rooms to offer a supplementary education contents after school. As the result, it is available studying with famous teachers¡¯ on or off-line lectures and multimedia-learning in classrooms from 2010 when IPTV education network is built completely for a nation. The business of IPTV network construction in schools is that Internet network which was already constructed in about 240 thousand classrooms for a nation (about 11,000 schools including primary, middle and high schools) is developed up to 50Mbps which makes the IPTV service available. Besides over 40 IPTV study rooms were built in Korea for the underprivileged children.
WSIS action lines related to this activity: Theme 1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
[ICT for sustainable development]
Theme 2. Information and communication infrastructure
Theme 3. Access to information and knowledge
Theme 7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life
[E-learning]
Related MDGs:
no information available
Activity type:
Project
Time scale:
Ongoing
Partners:
no information available
Additional Information on National Implementation Mechanism
Strategy for coordinating WSIS Implementation at the national level: Yes
