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.... Internet for Iranian Highschools.....
"Information Technology and the Internet for Education in
Iran"
SCIENCE AND ARTS FOUNDATION
http://www.science-arts.org
Empowering the youth of our homeland:
Connecting Iranian High Schools to the Internet
Sunday, June 18, 2000
5:00-7:00 PM
SHERATON HOTEL, 1100 N Mathilda
Sunnyvale, California
The ORCHID Room
Admission is Free
Speaker: Dr. Abbas Edalat
Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
Imperial College, London
http://www.science-arts.org
At the dawn of the third Millennium, an extraordinary technological
revolution, dramatically illustrated by the rapid development of the
Internet, is unfolding in our planet which is radically changing the
way human beings live, communicate, develop interests, learn,
research, produce and trade. It has had a massive impact on the new
generations in the West: Computers and the Internet have brought about
an explosion of perspectives for tens of millions of children and
youth who can use this new medium and technology as a natural part of
their daily lives in order to realize their full potential.
In contrast, this gigantic process is sharply accentuating the gap
between the developed and the developing countries by producing a
deeply uneven and divided world of the digital haves and the digital
have nots, with its striking consequences in terms of global
inequality in the years ahead. However, information technology, and in
particular the Internet, has created for the first time in human
history an empowering tool to eradicate effectively the roots of
underdevelopment. The basic precondition is to make the new technology
available and integrated consistently at an early age in the education
of the hundreds of millions of the children in the third world.
The Science and Arts Foundation (SAF), which was set up as a
non-profit-making educational charity on 1st March 1999, aspires for
such an ideal future world.
SAF's first campaign has been in Iran, where school children and
university students have shown their outstanding talents in recent
years by a series of spectacular successes in International Science
Olympiads and other major international competitions such as the
RoboCup. Information technology can enable the youth in Iran to
realize their full potential towards the highest degrees of
scientific, technological, cultural, social and economic progress. By
acting now, this vision is within our reach.
In this talk, full details will be presented on how SAF has provided,
in its first year of activities, well-equipped computer sites and
Internet access for 18 model state schools nearly all in deprived
areas of cities such as Tehran, Shahre Ray, Varamin, Isfahan. These
are the first schools in the country to go on-line. SAF has also set
up a School Information Centers at Sharif University in Tehran and is
now setting up a similar one also in Isfahan. These centres provide
Internet access to schools, train teachers in information technology
and the Internet, download major educational and cultural Websites
around the globe for use of school children in Iran. They will also be
used to organize Internet based collaborative projects between schools
in Iran and the rest of the world in scientific, environmental,
cultural and artistic areas. Finally SAF's overall program of
activities for the next two years will be outlined.
