December 1996
The purpose of the Leland Initiative's School-to-School Partnership program in Ghana is to facilitate skill development and cross-cultural learning by encouraging dialogue between primary and secondary schools in Africa and those in the United States, via the Internet. For the first week of October and the first week of November, the foundation was laid for the Partnership with six schools in Accra, from which projects are developing and academic uses for the Internet are being explored.
Ghana has begun this Partnership with the Ghana International School (GIS) and the Lincoln Community School, and three identified partner schools in the United States. As they develop projects and incorporate Internet technologies into their classrooms, they will assist other selected Ghanaian schools--identified as having the interest and potential hardware capability- in using the Internet and developing partnerships of their own. In this way, a broader academic user group will evolve, and act as a resource for other Ghanaian schools interested in these technologies.
This Partnership represents a logical link to the
GLOBE Program for those schools that are looking to enhance their science courses using the Internet. The schools contacted for the Partnership were given a brief introduction to this program as a means of surveying their interest.