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Dr. Fatos Yarman, president, EDMER "We wanted to show that ICT in schools should go beyond computer labs. It's much more about the human network of students and teachers, who can collaborate in a new type of environment. During the project, we also benefited from the wealth of expertise and solutions as a result of a public-private partnership with partners like Cisco and Intel." Dr. Nizami Akturk, head of MoNE Educational Technologies Directorate "The Ministry of Education initially set as objective to have at least one computer class in every school. This is now almost completed all around Turkey, to an extent of nearly 100 percent. For the next step, we are targeting to have an Internet environment in every class with one computer and one projector, where teachers will have the chance to share content from the Internet, as well as content they have created themselves. We're working on modeling the future classes and education environment with the active collaboration of government and private sector representatives, based on what is considered as best practice internationally. We're proud and happy to realize this pilot project that started with the aim of providing computers to every student."Cigdem Ertem, general manager, Intel Turkey "Intel is contributing to education with a wealth of online learning tools like Intel Teacher, Intel Student and skoool, as well as the 1:1 eLearning project. We strongly believe that education is the most effective way to take while transforming the world. As Intel, our mission is to make your dreams come true by enhancing the lives with internet, pc and technology. We are pleased that we take these aims one step further now by designing the 1:1 eLearning project."Erkan Akdemir, general manager, Cisco Turkey "Education is a key engine to accelerate social and economic development and is essential for building a competitive workforce for the global knowledge economy. Acquiring the ability to collaborate and communicate now is as important as learning the factual knowledge.