IICD supported project: Global Teenager Bolivia

Countries: Bolivia [BO]
Sectors: education

Summary

Started in 2000, Fundacion Ayni participated with a limited number of schools in the English language Learning Circles. In 2002, a 5-year project has started with twenty schools participating in the project in the department of Oruro. Seven schools are located in highly isolated rural areas that lack all access to basic services. In total an estimated number of ten thousand students and parents benefit from the project through direct participation in the content programmes or by means of indirect access, merely through using the computer facilities. Five schools participate in the Global Teenager Project aswell as in a more basic ICT programme focused on integration of ICT in daily classes. The project seeks active collaboration with the government body responsible for education on department level.

Update

Updated: 2005-08-30

Twenty schools participate in the project, making it the largest ICT
for education initiative in Bolivia. The programme includes seven
schools in highly isolated rural areas that lack all access to basic
services. In total an estimated number of 10,000 students and parents
benefit from the project through direct participation in the content
programmes or by means of indirect access, merely through using the
computer facilities. <br />
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Teachers in computer science and in science and languages have been
trained formed their own association assisting in the maintenance and
further technical development of computer labs installed. Subject
matter teachers are working on the development of educational modules
using very basic ICTs as a starting point for the integration of ICT in
standard lessons and the curricula.<br />
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About seven schools participated in the GTP international Learning
Circles 2003. To mainstream the project into the sector the project is
working on the following lines: 1) increasing participation of regional
education authorities in ownership of the project; 2) Subject matter
teachers are working on the development of educational modules using
very basic ICTs as a starting point for the integration of ICT in
standard lessons and the curricula and 3) presentation of a long-term
proposal to the Ministry of Education for funding as part of the ICT
policy for the education sector.<br />
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The project is co-funded by IICD, CORDAID and Wilde Ganzen.
Increasingly, partners and the government are to support operational
costs of the project, seeking self-sustaining operations within five
years. A gift of around 10,000 euro is received for equipment by a
delegation of a group of business people linked to the Ministry of
Economic Affairs in Holland.

Project Owner : Stichting AYNI Bolivia

Contact Organisation : Stichting AYNI Bolivia