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Here you will find links to most of the country specific information provided by this site regarding Tuvalu. You may also want to do a search by clicking on "ICT search" in the sidebar, or a search in one of our databases. Note that most of the projects have a regional impact and therefore are not necessarily listed here.

 

Information

 

Projects

  • Article: My Experience with OLPC in Tuvalu
    Excerpt: “The workshops I’ve been running here are for the Tuvalu Ministry of Education. They have me here for a Wiki-educator initiative called Learning for Content (L4C). Many primary and secondary teachers from around the Islands of Tuvalu are here, as well as people from non- government organizations and service areas in Tuvalu.”

 

Further resources

  • Powerpoint- Country Presentation: Tuvalu
    This powerpoint, taken from the COL Focal Points Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2008, speaks to the objectives for Education and ICT in Education for the government of Tuvalu.

  • ADB Report: ICT Development in Tuvalu
    Tuvalu is a very small country with a high degree of vulnerability to external economic and environmental events, a weak resource base, and limited internal economic opportunities.
  • Article: Use of ICT in Education in the South Pacific
    Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are having a revolutionary effect on school practices, distance education, as well as government and public sector policies, and commercial and economic growth worldwide.

  • Encyclopedia of the Nations: Tuvalu Education
    All children receive free primary education from the age of seven. Education is compulsory for seven years. The Tuvaluan school system has seven years of primary and six years of secondary education. Secondary education is provided at Motufoua, a former church school on Vaitupu now jointly administered by the government.

  • Article: Impact of ICT in University Education in Small Island States
    This is the story of the development of the USPNet of the University of the South Pacific. The case study describes how the university tapped into the initial stages of the development of satellite-based communication; how it has struggled to find the financing necessary to improve its crucial communications facility; how it has had to cope with the extremely high telecommunications charges and the regulatory obstacles resulting from the monopolized telecommunications facilities in the member countries; how it has contended with the enormous damage to infrastructure that can be inflicted by the physical environment; and how it has continually struggled to provide the most up-to date multimedia learning to more than 10,000 distance students studying in some of the most remote places in the world.