Grow food, grow jobs: how broadband can boost farming in California’s Central Valley
Broadband helps farmers and students in California’s Central Valley use technology and develop skills to improve the agriculture economy.
Education
Using educational games to teach math
3rd grade students from seven public schools near Sao Paolo have participated in a pilot project for the preparation of games to favour math learning. The project is proving that learning numbers and calculus can be a more fun experience with the use of educational games in the classroom
Supporting women in ICT
The West and Central African Research and Education Network is forging strategic partnerships to support women in ICT, demonstrating its commitment to opening windows of opportunities for women, historically underrepresented in STEM fields.
Helping Afghanistan’s youth rebuild their future
Minimising the brain drain and equipping the right people with the right skills is central to the efforts to re-shape the future of Afghanistan after years of turmoil. The Asi@Connect project contributes to these efforts by supporting capacity building of network engineers at universities across the country to help them ensure the smooth running of the educational process ‘behind the scenes’ and to consolidate the emerging AfgREN NREN.
TERNET leaps barriers to global teaching and learning
What does a modern teaching and learning facility that is part of a global institution of higher learning need to have to stay in touch with its partner campuses in other parts of the world?
Cross-border concert showcases unique technology for teaching and performance
‘Music Without Borders’ using LoLA low latency data transmission technology was enjoyed by Ministers and Ambassadors from around Europe and Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries.
Kenya Finland partnership boosts access to geoinformatics education and training to aid sustainable development
The groundbreaking TAITAGIS project aims at building a critical mass of postgraduates equipped to overcome the huge human resource deficit in Applied Geoinformatics in Kenya and Eastern Africa.
Enabling global working at a global university
When Heriot-Watt needed a better connection at its campus in Malaysia, Jisc brokered a deal with local providers to achieve it – helping fulfil its vision of a ‘global university’
From cultural heritage to particle physics, VC technology makes global collaboration easy in Latin America
The Anilla Cultural Latinoamérica-Europa in Uruguay, a network of cultural facilities, coproduces online events using second-generation netowrking technologies and promotes both research on new uses of the Internet in cultural production and the exchange of content.