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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

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...

Filed under: Public-Private Partnerships, Education, schools, student, United Nations, Partnerships

First Place Imagine Cup Design for Development Award goes to COSMIC!
07 July 09 02:09 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

This just in from Cairo...a big congratulations to team COSMIC from U niversiti Sains Malaysia ! At tonight’s Imagine Cup closing ceremony staged in front of the Pyramids , Jasy Liew Suet Yan, Loo Wan Koe, Mathew Phiong Yoon Kheong, Ooi Keng Siang were Read More...

Filed under: Imagine Cup, Asia, UN Millennium Development Goals, Design for Development, student

Imagine Cup Design for Development Award - Tonight's the Night!
07 July 09 04:01 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

The Imagine Cup finalists for the Unlimited Potential Design for Development Award competed in Cairo yesterday. Early feedback suggests that the judges were deeply impressed by all of the creative thinking and passion that went in to the projects, designed Read More...

Filed under: Imagine Cup, UN Millennium Development Goals, Design for Development, student

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...

Filed under: Education, Partners in Learning, Central and Eastern Europe, schools, student

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...

Filed under: Education, Imagine Cup, Software Design, student

Design for Development Finalists Announced!
16 June 09 06:28 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

Only two weeks to go until the Imagine Cup 2009 Worldwide Finals in Cairo, Egypt! Our judges have narrowed the field of entrants for the Microsoft Unlimited Potential Design for Development Award and selected five finalist teams. I would like to thank Read More...

Filed under: Imagine Cup, UN Millennium Development Goals, Microsoft, technology, Egypt, Design for Development, student

Imagine Cup Students Travel to Redmond
15 June 09 07:05 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

Last week, students participating in the Imagine Cup traveled to Microsoft’s Redmond campus to meet with various Microsoft teams as they prepare for the 2009 Worldwide Finals in Cairo, Egypt. Team SKAN from India and Team MultiPoint WEB from the U.S. Read More...

Filed under: India, Imagine Cup, UN Millennium Development Goals, MultiPoint, Microsoft, technology, Software Design, MultiPoint Education, Egypt, student

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...

Filed under: Education, India, Imagine Cup, technology, Design for Development, student, first-time PC users, eLearning

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

Steve Ballmer witnesses how young Indonesian innovators are working to prevent the spread of Malaria
19 May 09 10:17 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

By Bonnie Mamanua, Unlimited Potential Group Business Manager, Microsoft Indonesia Last week we welcomed our CEO, Steve Ballmer, to Indonesia. Steve was here to hold meetings with Microsoft staff as well as political and business leaders, but while he Read More...

Filed under: Imagine Cup, Healthcare, Asia, Rural Innovation Award, UN Millennium Development Goals, Microsoft, technology, Egypt, Indonesia, student, developer