Intel Aims to Bridge Digital Divide

INTEL AIMS TO BRIDGE DIGITAL DIVIDE
[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Don Clark don.clark@wsj.com]
Intel is pledging to invest $1 billion over five years to help provide broader access to technology and educational resources in developing countries. The big U.S. chip maker said the program, called World Ahead, combines projects the company has funded previously with new activities -- all aimed at giving people in developing countries more access to computers and the Internet. Intel said the program has three primary goals: to design affordable computers that are tailored to needs of developing regions; to make high-speed Internet access more ubiquitous, in some cases through use of a wireless technology called WiMAX, and to provide training to teachers and students on the use of information technology. As part of World Ahead, Intel said it plans to donate 100,000 PCs for use in classrooms in developing nations. The company had already been spending about $100 million a year on educational programs. The company has trained about three million teachers so far in the use of technology, and plans to train 10 million more over five years as part of the World Ahead program.
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