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international
The IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) examines the outcomes of student computer and information literacy (CIL) across countries. CIL refers to an individual's ability to use computers to investigate, create, and communicate in order to participate effectively at home, at school, in the workplace, and in the community. The ICILS target [...]

international
The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) is the International Study Center for ICILS. ACER staff will be responsible for the day to day management of the project. Instrument development and some data analyses and psychometric work will also be centered at the International Study Center. The website offers the full text of the report and assessment framework as [...]

Bolivia
The Agency for the Development of the Information Society of Bolivia (ADSIB) has the objectives to make policy proposals, to implement strategies and coordinate activities which effect the reduction of the digital breach in the coutnry through the impulse of ICT in all its fields. Also, ADSIB undertakes actions which establish a knowledge society in Bolivia, promotes the [...]

Colombia
The Administrative Department for Science, Technology and Innovation "Colciencias" fosters public policies to make ICT a public topic in Colombia. The activities for the fullfilment of this task include the agreement of policies which promote the production of knowledge, as well as the creation of ICT skills and the favouring of the dissemination and the use of ICT to foster [...]

Cuba
The Computing and Electronic Youth Clubs (JCCE) are a network of technical centers that were opened on September 8, 1987 in order to provide the Cuban society with a computing culture, prioritizing the children and youngsters acquisition of values within such a process. Their tasks aim at using new technologies for the solution of diverse demands and problems of Cuban [...]

Liberia
Brewerville Institute of Technology is a non-profit organization founded and incorporated in the Republic of Liberia with the aim of offering free computer information sytems education throughout Liberia.

Chile
Enlaces, the Centre for Education and Technology (CET), a department of the Ministry of Education of Chile, has the task to improve the quality of education by including educational IT in the school system, which is adequat to the necessities of the information society. Concrete objectives are the support of school to make the lessons more efficient, the developemt of new [...]

Dominican Republic
Educando - The Dominican Education Portal is an initiative, which supports the development of the Dominican digital infrastructure; it examines resources and contents which are of interest for the educational society. Educando directs itself to all participants of the national education: schools, teachers, graduates and managers. The goals of educando are to promote the [...]

Kenya
Kenya Education Network Trust (KENET) is a National Research and Education Network that promotes the use of ICT in Teaching, Learning and Research in Higher Education Institutions in Kenya.

Rwanda
The Rwanda Education Commons (REC) aims to help Rwanda expand access to quality education through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). It hopes to realize this goal by improving the climate for collaboration in the use of ICTs in education, and by implementing activities that use ICTs to supplement teaching and learning. The REC aims to realize a [...]

United Kingdom
CEM is a not-for-profit organisation and part of Durham University, based in North East England. It provides educational monitoring systems computer-adaptive assessments which are used in schools. Also it is has an educational research unit including a data base and many publications on the area of educational research.

Hungary
The country report on the situation of information and communication technologies at schools in Hungary is part of the Insight web base on ICT at schools. It focuses on recent educational policy reforms, particularly the national core curriculum introducing information technology as a knowledge area taught in specific courses as well as the use of electronic learning resources [...]

Spain
The country report on Spain refers to the specific region of Catalonia as the education system is decentralised: apart from providing references to general curricula, it outlines successful internet platforms for teachers (communication, exchange of digital resources) and strategies and objectives, which are put into practice by the autonomous schools in their respective areas [...]

Belgium
The Insight web base for information and communication technology ( ICT) at schools provides access to country reports regarding ICT policy and implementation. This report for the Flemish speaking community of Belgium deals with the current guidelines in the context of the educational reform plans in Belgium. Besides, it focuses on the curriculum in relation to ICT, digital [...]

Norway
This comprehensive and well-structured overview of the situation of information and communication technology in Norway focuses on ICT in the education system as well as taking its broader use into perspective. It addresses strategies, implementation, financing, monitoring and evaluation, teacher trainning, and e-inclusion, that is measures targeting the accessibility of ICT [...]

Russian Federation
The homepage structured in detail provides a catalogue of resources for children. It comprises among others the categories entertainment, arts and culture, nature, computer and Internet, but also education, help for pupils/students and advice for parents.

Austria
The web site is supported by the Ministry of Education, Austria, and provides access to reports and documentations on various aspects of special needs education with a focus on the employment of information technology (computers) in schools. It is linked to the European SNE network.

Malta
The Employment and Training Corporation is Malta's Public Employment Service. Its objectives are to help employees to find suitable employment and to assist employers to find suitable employees. For this purpose a nation-wide computerised job seekers' database is in use. The ETC provides vocational guidance and training service to clients seeking new jobs and to clients [...]

Russian Federation; United States of America (USA)
This full text analyses in critical manner the new possibilities and problems which educational researchers are facing in using the Internet and other telecommunication systems. The comparative description of Internet resources in Russia and the USA offers a variety of significant links. Published in the Journal of Online Education 1998, author: Piotr Shalimov.

India
ERNET India is the National Research and Education Network dedicated to support the needs of the research and education community within the country. It was established in 1998 as an autonomous scientific society under the Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India. It operates ERNET network – a pan-Indian terrestrial and satellite [...]

Japan
NIME is an autonomous body concerned with higher education in multimedia environments. It provides a search engine in order to find offers for multimedia and online learning.

Croatia
CARNet was established in 1991 as a project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia. The network fulfils important tasks in the field of education and training.- This website in particular provides information on the activities of the CARNet education centre Edupoint which is involved in systemic raising of the computer literacy level of the [...]

Paraguay
The institute of science of education (ISE) in Paraguay is an educational institution for teacher training and further education. The website gives an overview of political reform programs and objectives in the field of primary and secondary education and teacher training. It offers information on topics as bilingual intercultural education, the use of new information and [...]

Peru
The initiative of Peruvians living abroad supports schools in Peru by providing curriculum materials and computers. The website provides information about the projects and offers access to two virtual courses.

Peru
The program Huascarán of the Peruvian Education Ministry intends to develop, execute, evaluate and supervize a national network with educational content which has access to all information resources and which can transmit multimedia contents, to foster the quality of education in rural as well as in urban regions.

Peru
The portal of the Peruvian scientific net Red Científica Peruana provides a comprehensive link list of Peruvian and Latin American internet content. One of these links at the homepage refers to "educación" and offers a link list of schools (Colegios), universities, academies and institutes of further education, arranged according to the provinces in Peru. Links to libraries, [...]

Ireland
CESI has as its general aim the promotion of information technology in education. Information on CESI and the government efforts to implement IT in education (links to reports). Information on schools and IT and European IT partner projects. Links to directory of school websites, related educational sites and centres. Archive with research reports.

Ireland
The aim of CRILT is to improve learning, teaching and assessment practices at the National College of Ireland. CRILT runs the project "Usability Testing in the National E-Learning Laboratory (NELL)" and takes part in the project "E-View - Building a European Virtual Environment for Work-based Learning". A further focus is on digital literacy and blended learning.

international; Ireland
CRITE is a multi-disciplinary research centre formed as a joint initiative between the Departments of Computer Science, and Department of Education at Trinity College, Dublin. Its remit is to investigate the overlap between technology and education. The aim of the centre is to carry out research on the use of technology in learning and to develop new pedagogically inspired [...]

Slovenia
This Website has been created to support teachers and pupils in Slovenia in using the new information technologies. It was established by the Ministry of Education and Sports together with the National Institute of Education. The main concern is to develop computer literacy. For this purpose a programme has to be implemented whose tasks are described in detail.