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| First Steps | PRINT | | Development of eSocieties in South Caucasus Successful |
 Saarbrücken (Germany), October 2006 – EU efforts to establish eSocieties in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia have been successful so far. The current project, called "Development of eSocieties in South Caucasus", is part the European Commission’s TACIS Regional Cooperation Program 2003 and will run until May 2007.
Through the program, the European Union aims to support the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the South Caucasus Region where just three to five percent of the population have Internet access.
Coming together
During 2002, the EU organized two major regional eCaucasus conferences and several consultative meetings. These meetings provided an invaluable forum for public servants, people from the world of business, civil activists, and representatives of international donor agencies from the EU, the South Caucasus, and its neighbors to come together to discuss the prospects for the establishment of an information society in the region.
The ground was also prepared for strengthening and intensifying cooperation between the South Caucasus and the EU, as well as supporting the integration of the region into the global information community. The governments of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan demonstrated their commitment to the project by setting up National Research and Education Networks (NREN) as partners in each of their countries.
The Development of eSocieties in the South Caucasus project was primarily aimed at designing and implementing eLearning infrastructures and business processes in cooperation with the national Research and Education Networking Associations ARENA, AzRENA, GRENA), thus providing an added value to their mission. Provisions included hard- and software as well as expert knowhow to develop distance learning and eLearning applications.
Teaching the teachers
The project promoted the expansion and use of eLearning at universities and education and training centres throughout the region. The project consortium used new digital online eLearning Management Systems and new educational courseware to enhance mainstream education curricula, establishing skilled teams in each beneficiary country who are able to design, develop, and deliver new e-content for ICT subjects where the previous focus had been on telecoms, broadband access platforms, and mobile communication applications.
Opening doors
Led by German-based IMC AG, which had been selected by the EU to run the project, all essential steps of the project were completed on time or even ahead of schedule:
- analysis of educational needs 11/05
- eLearning-based curricula 08/ 06
- eLearning processes in education management 10/06
- user interface design 11/06
- content factory knowledge 12/06
- hardware and software for eLearning centers 12/06
- design of eUniversities 12/06
The remaining issues, such as establishing business plans for the eLearning centers and building regional and trans-regional cooperation groups, are well under way. The successful completion of the EU project has not only brought eLearning structures to the South Caucasus but also opened the door for IMC to enter the eastern European market. The corporation has just opened a permanent office in Romania. |
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