The document discusses the Mentorship for Active Internet Learning (MAIL) project supported by an IBM Centennial Grant. The project aims to provide mentorship and internet access to 1,000 low-income students in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong. IBM volunteers helped obtain software licenses and provided skills and knowledge. The project seeks additional volunteers and core team members to help expand mentorship opportunities and contribute to addressing social issues in the community.
The document is from the Internet Learning Resource Centre (ILRC) and contains their copyright notice. It discusses a teacher from Caritas school named Mr. Andy Lee and mentions small group discussions. It also contains sections on playlist management, learning activities, tracking, and assessment as well as initials that possibly stand for parents, teachers, and assessment.
WebOrganic Sharing on Digital Inclusion at Wofoo Leaders’ NetworkJeff Ng
This document discusses creating a digitally inclusive city and tackling digital divide. It provides background on Tony Lee and his experience leading social enterprise WebOrganic. It then covers topics like global ICT development, digital divide in Hong Kong affecting disadvantaged groups, and examples of initiatives to increase access, skills, and inclusive design and content to reduce the divide. The document advocates for digital rights and inclusion to prevent economic and social exclusion.
- Hong Kong provides free public education from kindergarten through 12 years of schooling. It has over 450 public primary schools and nearly 400 public secondary schools.
- The education system aims to develop students' biliteracy in Chinese and English and trilingualism in Cantonese, Putonghua and English.
- Hong Kong has over 15 local degree-awarding institutions, including 8 publicly-funded universities, as well as vocational education providers like the Vocational Training Council (VTC) that offer sub-degree programs. Over 100,000 students enroll in publicly-funded higher education programs each year.
WebOrganic Mentorship Programme 2014-15 (Lingnan U)Jeff Ng
This document introduces the WebOrganic Mentorship Programme for 2014-15. It provides details about:
- WebOrganic being a social enterprise that implements an internet learning support programme.
- The programme vision of giving students hope, chance and choice.
- Mentors being expected to arrange at least 4 activities with mentees to create personal portfolios and understand challenges faced by underprivileged children.
- Target mentees being underprivileged primary 4 to 6 students and programme dates running from September 2014 to December 2014 including training sessions and a closing ceremony.
1) The document discusses an "organic internet" program offered in 8 districts in Hong Kong that provides affordable internet access and computers, technical support, student and parent training, and counseling services.
2) It also describes an ICT literacy platform that offers online safety courses for students, including topics like internet addiction, online relationships, cybercrimes, basic security knowledge, and social networks.
3) The program holds parent talks to help parents avoid problems and offers courses on basic computing, safe internet use for youth, online entertainment, preventing internet addiction, cyberbullying detection, and helping children use the internet safely.