Following the Education Act of 1996, the Ministry of Education of Guanajuato established SABES, Sistema Avanzado de Bachillerato y Educacion Superior, (Advanced System for Secondary and Higher Education) as an initiative to create new decentralized bodies and expand the reach of educational services.
Since 2005, Yachana Foundation has been providing computer training to mestizos and indigenous youth from six different ethnic groups in 80+ communities. But providing a cutting edge technology 25-monitor computer learning facility in the Ecuadorian Amazon was an ambitious goal.
In 2010, Computer Aid International, a London-based charity established a solar-powered cyber café called ZubaBox in Zambia as part of the organization’s efforts to increase information technology access in rural areas of developing countries. Computer Aid International is the world’s largest, and most experienced, not-for-profit provider of practical Information Communications Technology (ICT) solutions for international development and has distributed more than 180,000 restored PCs in Africa and Latin America.
WiniaMando is a large South Korean home appliance manufacturer with a mission to become a globally recognized brand. To maintain their unwavering dedication to customer satisfaction, they run their own business operations call center. In order to handle the many customer calls that they receive, each call center employee needs access to a PC. However, maintaining and supporting all of those desktops drained the company’s resources. They spent too much time and money keeping the machines up and running.