With the significant contribution of NComputing’s L300 virtual desktop device, Esenler Municipality, based in Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, now has its first digital library. Deployed by Ertugrul Gunay, Minister of Culture and Tourism, the library includes over 7,500 digital books, of which 2,500 are audio books designed for people who are visually impaired.
The Government of Ghana and the Ministry of Education are committed to the rapid deployment and utilization of information and communications technology (ICT) throughout all levels of education as a means to transform the education system and improve the quality of life for all citizens in Ghana.
Córdoba is the second-largest city in Argentina. The Department of Justice houses five lower courts (Criminal, Civil, Business, Labor Disputes Administration, and Electoral), which oversee all judicial activity in the area.
With huge buildings, six thousand (6,000) employees and more than five thousand (5,000) daily visitors, the Córdoba Justice Department needed to quickly upgrade personnel who had either no equipment or obsolete equipment. The traditional process for equipping personnel required significant investment and a large implementation window.
The government of Rajasthan sought to provide computer education to students in its state-run schools. As the largest state in India, Rajasthan was facing several significant roadblocks–hardware costs, maintenance, and power shortages among them. NComputing’s vSpace for Linux desktop virtualization solution helped address these requirements most economically and effectively.
The ‘ICT in Education’ Project
Haryana, a state located in northern India, comprises 21 districts. The state’s “ICT in Education” project – part of the government’s mission of transforming Haryana into an IT-driven economy – aims to introduce every student to computing to empower them with the skills to thrive in the modern world.
Computer skills are becoming as important as math, language and science education, and governments around the world are looking for the most efficient ways to provide computing access for their students.
Maharashtra is India’s second largest state and includes the city of Mumbai— India’s commercial capital. In order to ensure that its workforce is ready for the modern work place, the state government established the Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited (MKCL) to provide adults with essential IT and computing skills. The MKCL fulfills its mission through a large network of learning centers across the state. The learning centers are operated by small and mid-sized IT enterprises.