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For the Inter-American Development Bank education is a key component
in the establishment of conditions for development in the region.
The Bank has traditionally been involved in the financing of national
education reforms programs as well as in exploring innovative
ways to deliver, manage, promote and improve education. Equity,
the opportunity for all youngsters to access the educational system,
for example, is a permanent concern of the Bank.
Information
and Communication Technologies play a relevant role in all these
objectives. In current days distance education is accepted
as an efficient means to reach segments of the population that
otherwise would have no access to education. Satellites, the Internet,
videos or CD-ROM's, represent a set of alternative resources that
properly explored can surpass geographical difficulties, and promote
equity.
The Bank has
been involved in projects of different characteristics: the creation
of information systems for the management of central authorities
of education; to equip and interconnect primary or secondary schools;
the training teachers in the use of new technologies and in the
application of them for teaching purposes; the development of
educational software; the formulation of policies and revision
of legal parameters, etc.
The following
is a sample of our projects:
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