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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...
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...
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UNESCO & Microsoft join forces to promote greater access and use of ICT for higher education enhancement
13 July 09 08:26 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Last week in Paris close to 100 ministers of education, senior education officials and policy advisors attended the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education (WCHE) followed by the Microsoft Education Leaders Forum . The WCHE is focusing on critical Read More...
Capturing the Interest of Students and Motivating Them to Succeed
03 July 09 03:40 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
For many years before I joined Microsoft I taught in secondary schools in the UK. One of the most important initiatives I became involved in was to increase the relevance of education to capture the interest of our students and ultimately motivate them Read More...
VOTE! Imagine Cup People's Choice Award
26 June 09 02:47 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
The People's Choice Award website for this year's Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals in Cairo is up and running! To make it easy for you to vote, we have published videos from all of our software design finalists online. Every single student who entered the Read More...
MultiPoint won’t stop them preferring football to Maths, but it might help develop their learning ability
04 June 09 07:47 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 1 Comments   
This article from IDG’s PC World site about some of the challenges to teaching in Thailand, and technologies to help overcome them, was interesting and had a humorous ending. A reporter came to visit one of the schools where we are trialling Microsoft Read More...
How do people engage with PCs for the first time?
02 June 09 02:53 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Given that most of us have encountered PCs from the time we were in school or college, it may be difficult to think of what it was like to discover the PC for the first time! But most adults in countries like India are new to PCs, and usually view it Read More...
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...
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...
Made in India to transform education worldwide
05 May 09 01:52 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Indian concept, global appeal Recently Microsoft India has experienced two very welcome “returns”. The first returnee was Amit Mital, an Indian working at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond as global head of Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential Group. The second Read More...
Imagine Cup US Finals - People’s Choice (that means YOU!)
27 April 09 06:33 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Next week some of the brightest – and youngest – minds in America will compete in the US Finals of the Imagine Cup , Microsoft’s worldwide student technology competition. Fifteen student teams were chosen out of thousands to showcase the technology applications Read More...
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The best laid schemes of mice and men, By Camille Mazo, business development manager, Unlimited Potential Group APAC
02 April 09 07:44 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
At first glance a line penned in 1785 by Scotland’s famous poet Robbie Burns and the modern Thai education system have very little in common, but it was this line that kept popping into my head as I watched a Windows MultiPoint demonstration in Bangkok Read More...
European Innovative Teachers Forum and a study on laptops in the classroom
02 April 09 11:19 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
I spent last week in Vienna at Microsoft’s European Innovative Teachers Forum with representatives of the Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Educational Development (NIRO). NIRO just completed a study examining 252 students out of over 42,000 students who have Read More...
The story behind MultiPoint
30 March 09 12:39 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
It’s incredibly exciting for us to see increased momentum with MultiPoint in schools! MultiPoint was conceived during the summer of 2005 at Microsoft Research India , when we visited rural schools in India to understand how they use PCs. We discovered Read More...
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On the midnight train to Nizhniy Novgorod
12 November 08 11:25 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 1 Comments   
After an exciting trip on an overnight night train we’ve landed in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. We spent most of today in the community around the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ) where Microsoft is working with NGO Free Deed to provide students with PCs loaded Read More...
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