Current Collaborations

Intel creates effective public-private partnerships, working with governments, development agencies, non-governmental organizations, educators, and local technology providers to empower schools, communities, and countries. Working together, we can improve the quality of education and equip citizens to compete successfully in the global, knowledge economy.

See how Intel is collaborating around the world:

Assessment & Teaching of 21st Century Skills

Intel has joined with Cisco and Microsoft to improve education around the world by transforming the way we measure student achievement. In January 2009, the three companies announced a new research initiative to recommend improved approaches and methods for assessing 21st Century skills in today's students. Since then, the initiative has formed five working groups with more than 60 leading scholars focused on how to define, measure and teach the skills that will be needed to compete in today's global knowledge economy. Three countries have signed on to pilot the new methods.

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Clinton Global Initiative

Intel joined CGI in 2007 with an ambitious commitment to expand the Intel® Teach Program to reach an additional 1.5 million teachers online, a goal with an estimated market value of $300 million over four years. We recently participated in the 2008 annual meeting with new commitments on education and healthcare.

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

In 2005, Intel joined the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and has been instrumental in advancing the 21st century skills education agenda in the United States. Intel currently chairs the Partnership board. In the last three years, Intel has collaborated with the Partnership to release groundbreaking research, polls and ICT/21st century skills maps, including:

• 21st Century Skills, Education & Competitiveness

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• Beyond the Three R's: Voter Attitudes toward 21st Century Skills

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• Social Studies 21st Century Skills Map

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• Are They Really Ready to Work?

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State Educational Technology Directors Association

Intel currently collaborates with the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) to promote the effective uses of technology in the classroom in an effort to change instructional practices and improve student achievement. Intel is a sponsor of SETDA's Class of 2020 Action Plan for Education, providing teachers, administrators and policy makers with specific recommendations, models and strategies to address technology's role in systemic school reform.

UNESCO

In January 2008, Intel joined with UNESCO, Cisco, ISTE and Microsoft to develop the ICT Competency Standards for Teachers. These standards were created to help educational policy-makers and curriculum developers identify the skills teachers need to harness technology in the service of education.

• Watch the video: "A Journey of Hope: A New Way of Learning Through ICT in Education"

UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett currently chairs the UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UNGAID) steering committee. UNGAID, an initiative launched in 2006 with the approval of the United Nations Secretary General, is a global forum for addressing cross-cutting issues related to ICT in development.

United States Agency for International Development

In 2006, Intel signed a global collaboration agreement with USAID - the United States' official foreign assistance agency. Since then, Intel and USAID have collaborated to train teachers in Indonesia and Egypt in how to use technology to improve teaching and learning, and to extend connectivity in Vietnam and Ghana.

USAID Case Studies:

• Global Framework with Intel

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  : Advancing ICT Around the World
• Vietnam WiMAX Alliance

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  : Delivering high-speed telecom to rural communities
• Intel® Teach in Indonesia

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  : Improving Education through ICT Teacher Training
• West Africa Trade Hub: Providing High Speed Internet Connectivity

WiderNet

In 2008, Intel began collaborating with the University of Iowa's WiderNet project to create a new addition to WiderNet's eGranary Digital Library, an off-line collection of over 1,200 Web sites and CD-ROMs that provides Internet-like services in areas without Internet access. Using the new Community Information Platform, communities will be able to easily create relevant digital content for their eGranary.

World Bank Institute

Intel is collaborating with WBI to create a new global course on ICT in education. Click here to read about the 2007 pilot course involving policymakers from 15 countries in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.

World Economic Forum

Intel is a Steering Board member of the World Economic Forum Global Education Initiative (GEI), which supports the implementation of national education sector plans through innovative partnerships. Through GEI's partnership with the Education for All - Fast-Track Initiative, Intel is collaborating in Rwanda with multiple private sector partners and bilateral education donors to support the UN Millennium Goals. GEI also supports the advancement of Entreprenuer Education. Learn more from their groundbreaking report "Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs."