3,000 schools to have free data access

3,000 schools to have free data access

JAKARTA: Some 3,000 vocational schools in Java will have free
data access based on CDMA technology, following a memorandum of
understanding signed on Monday between the Ministry of National
Education's Directorate of Vocational Education and
telecommunication firm PT Mobile-8 Telecom.

Both students and teachers will be able to get free
information through the website http://dikmenjur.mobile-8.net on
curriculums, competency standards and education mapping.

"In a bid to produce graduates who are technology savvy, we
need to cooperate more with the telecommunications provider,"
said head of the directorate Gatot Hari Priowirjanto. --JP