Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will grant 36,000 students access to on-line educational resources, including Internet websites and scanned textbooks, to enhance teaching and learning which will improve quality of education and increase the life choices of students.

Project Message

"Javelin is the most logical and cost-effective way Africa can solve its problem of students' access to digital and re-usable content to enhance education in our lower level schools"
- Rev. Emmanuel Kingsley Dadebo, Co-ordinator, ICT in Education, Govt of Ghana

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Kwaku Boadu ,
Chief Executive Offier
#7 12th Avenue
Abeka Main Street
Accra, Accra POB JT103
Ghana
+233244331685
Email:

Project Sponsor

The Tech Museum Awards

Organization

Learn more about Arrow Network Systems and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Ghana and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Ghana, read the Human Development Report on Ghana or the Wikipedia entry for Ghana.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 10, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 16, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Arrow to receive donation of 140 computers for Javelin implementation for 3,000 studentsin Ghana

By Kwaku Boadu - CEO, December 10, 2007 05:52 PM

Arrow Network Systems has concluded an agreement with World Computer Exchange, Hull, MA, in December, 2007, to receive 140 (one hundred forty) refurbished computers to implement Javelin in three more schools to connect 3,000 students to the Internet using Arrow's Javelin technology. See further details at: http://www.worldcomputerexchange.org/partner_documents/Ghana-Arrow-Documents261
See the project implementation plan at: http://www.worldcomputerexchange.org/partner_plans/Ghana-Arrow-Plan.doc

The schools include New Akrade Primary, Akwamuman Secondary (replacement of broken computers), Boso Secondary-Technical and Anum Secondary Schools. All the schools are located in poor communities in Ghana, West Africa, with no telecommunication facilities to enable the students connect to the Internet. Arrow's Javelin technology shall therefore be used to enable 3,000 students aged between 12 and 17 have first time access to the Internet through stored educational website, scanned textbooks and slow access to e-mail only made possible by Javelin (http://www.arrownetworks.net/javelin.html).

Members of the community within which these schools are located shall also benefit from these computers and the Javelin access to the Internet through a community access program agreed with the schools.

The refurbished computers include Pentium IIs, Pentium IIIs, iMacs and Printers.

Contacts:
World Computer Exchange:
Timothy Anderson, President,
TAnderson@worldcomputerexchange.org

Arrow Network Systems
Kwaku Boadu, CEO
kwaku.boadu@arrownetworks.net

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