Press Releases

Listed here are the press releases concerning and related to the activities of the Bridges to the Future Initiative.

June 2005 -- Progress Report on ICT in Ghana

June 2005 -- Progress Report on BFI in South Africa

February 2005 -- Progress Report on BFI in South Africa

November 2004 -- Progress Update on Bridges to the Future Initiative (BFI) in India

January 2004 -- OECD-Penn International Roundtable on ICT in Non-Formal and Adult Education: Philadelphia, November 12-14, 2003.

November 2003 -- Progress on Bridges to the Future Initiative (BFI) in South Africa

November 2003 -- Bridges to the Future Initiative (BFI) Launched in India

November 2003 -- Bridges to the Future Initiative (BFI) -- India: Prototype Multimedia Learning Tools Developed

March 2003 -- Progress on BFI India

14 January 2003 -- JPMorgan Chase Funds Partnership to Bridge Digital Divide

10 December 2002--Progress is made on literacy in South Africa with BFI-SA MOU

10 October 2002--PENN’s International Literacy Institute Receives U.S. Support for Innovative Literacy and Technology Program in Conjunction with U.N. Literacy Decade

8 September 2002--INDIA--BFI-India Training Program begins in Andhra Pradesh in conjunction with UN International Literacy Day--Hyderabad

30 May 2001--INDIA--Signing of a Memoranda of Understanding between International Literacy Institute and State Governments of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka--Hyderabad, 19 May 2001/Bangalore, 25 May 2001

October 2001--UNITED STATES--ILI sister organization, the National Center on Adult Literacy, receives a major federal grant

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