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FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. (Business Wire EON) January 28, 2008 --
Mark Anderson, CEO and
publisher of Strategic News Service™ (SNS),
has been named CEO of SNS
Project Inkwell. The goal of Project
Inkwell is to accelerate the deployment of appropriate technologies
onto K-12 desktops worldwide. The Project Inkwell consortium includes
IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, IDEO, Gateway, Clearwire, Promethean, QED,
Steljes, Inspiration Software, and many other educational technology and
content companies.
Project Inkwell was the
first international industry group organized to (re)design appropriate
K-12 technology, the result of years of planning with vendors, teachers,
administrators, and students; it remains the leading multi-vendor effort
in this industry.
Mark Anderson, an
internationally renowned technology-industry CEO who has served as
Project Inkwell Chair since its founding in 2004, believes that “implementing
one-to-one in pre-university classrooms is the most important single
step a state or nation can take in improving economic performance.”
In support of both “super learners”
and less-advantaged students, Project
Inkwell’s mission is to provide students
and teachers with access to global digitized knowledge, and to take the
risk out of implementing this change as states and countries progress
along this inevitable path. This includes improving test scores, as well
as less tangible metrics: keeping kids in school, reducing absenteeism,
reducing teacher churn, removing inequities in education, and promoting
more active engagement among students and teachers.
Project Inkwell is endorsed
by the U.S. Departments of Education and Commerce, the World Bank, and
an expanding roster of U.S. governors.
Project Inkwell has met all
of its scheduled goals to date, including the design of a new teaching
and learning device.
For more information, or to schedule an interview with Mark
Anderson, call Sally Anderson at 206/634-2719, email sally@stratnews.com,
or fax: 206/675-8456.
SNS Project Inkwell is an
international consortium of global vendors whose goal is to accelerate
the worldwide deployment of student-appropriate technologies and teacher
training for K-12 in a one-to-one computing and learning environment.
Strategic News Service (SNS) is
a global news service in the technology industry focused on providing
information 3-5 years in advance for leaders in industry and finance.
“Strategic News Service,”
“SNS,” and “SNS
Project Inkwell” are all registered service
marks of Strategic News Service LLC.
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