And, while call centers, internet sales, IT services, and remote education may be exportable, we currently import a considerable amount of these services.
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Providing incentives for angel investing, venture capital and other innovation investment will have a rapid, immediate impact on job creation in everything from IT to biotech, nanotech, remote education and electric cars.
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The national projects aim to promote the use of ICTs to enhance the quality of education, to fight illiteracy, and to provide quality and equitable education to remote areas, while addressing the needs of gender education.
For the MP3 product, we understood that we had to control every aspect of design, development and manufacture given that this would be a product used mainly in remote areas for education.
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To date, the in-service teacher training is playing an important role in supporting the basic education system in remote areas.
The notion of Mr Bush now steering through anything with the scope of his tax cut or his education bill seems remote.
Such networks are already revolutionizing inventory control and fleet management, and are set to play a growing role in key social sectors like healthcare, through e-health applications, education, through remote learning and teacher training, and environmental management through applications like smart grids, monitoring systems and smart buildings.
Nevertheless, access to education for rural and predominantly nomadic people in remote areas remains restricted.
This is hard to curb because nurses do not want to work in poor remote areas, since their children cannot get a good education there.
Teachers at the lower education level are mostly ethnic minority teachers teaching in remote ethnic villages.
However, despite the recent improvements in literacy rates, there are still restrictions in terms of access of education for isolated nomadic communities living and moving in remote areas.
They can also provide vital information about health and education and create new economic opportunities for people who live in remote areas, often many miles from a bank, school or health centre.
India has established dedicated satellite systems for education and tele-medicine delivery, which can reach even the most remote rural population.
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Finally, the Honourable Mention of the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy is awarded to the Non-Formal and Continuing Education Programme of the Ministry of Education of Bhutan, for its holistic approach to literacy and its success in reaching remote areas.
Overall, a disproportionate majority of people with limited access to education and therefore high levels of illiteracy is found among ethnic minorities and indigenous people living in remote and economically marginalised areas.
And the aim is to replicate this model throughout the remote 3, 000 islands of Sulawesi, where inhabitants are often living without access to electricity, fuel, education, health services, or potable water.
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