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Global Give Back Circle featured at Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting
24 September 09 08:20 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

This week the annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting is taking place in New York. The CGI website describes this event as a meeting that “brings together a diverse group of the world’s most distinguished leaders from government, business, and Read More...

Filed under: Africa, Education, Clinton Global Initiative, schools, student, Partnerships

Beyond the PC: Helping governments do more with technology
27 July 09 03:49 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

At the Centre Africain d'Etudes Supérieures en Gestion (CESAG), a prestigious regional school of management for West and Central Africa, Microsoft introduced an ICT training program for government leaders and decision makers. CESAG is located in Senegal, Read More...

Filed under: Africa, Education, Senegal

How to reach rural, non-electrified classrooms
01 June 09 07:47 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

The Unlimited Potential Group in the Middle East & Africa has been hard at work for more than 6 months to introduce ICT for the first time to a rural school in the village of Ha-Tumo, 30 kilometers outside Lesotho’s capital city, Maseru. Working with Read More...

Filed under: Africa, Education, MultiPoint, schools, student

What Schools in Burkina Faso, Senegal & Mali Can Teach UP
08 May 09 03:05 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

A year ago, the Microsoft Unlimited Potential Group in the Middle East & Africa started a series of pilots in Francophone West Africa, to introduce small-notebook PCs into schools in Burkina Faso, Senegal and Mali. Each pilot used Microsoft software Read More...

Filed under: Africa, Education, Shared Access, Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso

Imagine Cup and the Rural Innovation Award — Michael Rawding
26 June 08 05:25 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

Those of you that follow Microsoft might be familiar with Imagine Cup – an annual student technology competition that Microsoft sponsors. This year Unlimited Potential has worked with Imagine Cup to add a new category -- the Rural Innovation Award . At Read More...

Filed under: Africa, Education, Latin America, India, Imagine Cup, Asia, Rural Innovation Award

Travel Diary: The African ICT Best Practices Forum, Burkina Faso and West Africa—Michael Rawding
29 April 08 02:32 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 1 Comments   

Last week, I had the opportunity to travel throughout West Africa to represent Microsoft Unlimited Potential, meeting with our partners across the public and private sectors to further discuss how Microsoft can best contribute to help create new economic Read More...

Filed under: Public-Private Partnerships, Africa, Education, Partners in Learning, NGOs, African ICT Best Practices Forum

Africa: Kenya and Nigeria—Michael Rawding
09 November 07 10:04 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 2 Comments   

After the Connect Africa Summit concluded in Rwanda, I was able to continue my African travels in Kenya and Nigeria. It was a great chance to see more of the region and visit some programs and businesses that are starting to enjoy new social and economic Read More...

Filed under: Africa, Education