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World Bank and WCE

World Computer Exchange has shipped five times to World Bank projects in Sri Lanka, Gujarat State in India (twice), and to Ecuador (twice).

Ecuador: E.dúcate working with infoDEV funding is using 70 Pentium IIs to connect and train 14 local schools with 7,000 students. (Implementation Plan file icon) 118 KB The WCE Board of Directors approved of this on 9 February 2003. They are working jointly on this project with FLASCO (see below). Contact: Nathalie Cely, Founder and Director. Facultad Latinoamericana De Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Contact: Carlos Arcos, Coordinator of joint program with E.dúcate (see above). from WCE Baltimore/Washington in March 2005. SHIPPED

  • Documents file icon: Donation Certificate & Packing List for shipment #1
  • Documents file icon: Donation Certificate & Proforma Invoice for shipment #2

India (Gujarat State): Education Support Organisation (aka Development Research Network). www.gyanshala.org They have received World Bank grant to develop local content and test it with 211 computers in 35 local centres with 3,700 students. The WCE Board of Directors voted on 7 September 2003 to approve. (Implementation Plan) as approved by World Bank [lost by WCE] Shipment was shared with REaD Foundation and NEED in Uttar Pradesh - with support from Asha. Contact: Pankaj Jain. SHIPPED from WCE New Haven in May 2004.

Sri Lanka: Gemidiriya Foundation - an autonomous body in the Ministry of Samrudhi and Poverty Alleviation of the Government of Sri Lanka and the newly forming Polonnaruwa Federation of rural villages of the North-Central Province working under a World Bank grant request Pentium II computers to connect youth in rural villages. This may include WCE being retained to help with local capacity building. (Implementation Plan file icon) Contacts: Vinayak Narayan Ghatate and Meena Munshi. The WCE Board of Directors voted to approve this Partnership on 11 September 2005. SHIPPED

  • Documents file icon: Donation Certificate & Proforma Invoice