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Code.org: 2 Weeks And 600M+ Lines Of Code Later, 20M Students Have Learned An “Hour Of Code”
Less than a year ago, brothers Hadi Partovi and Ali Partovi launched Code.org to help advocate for computer science in the U.S. and increase participation in STEM education by making these subjects more available in schools and classrooms around the country. Today, it seems that what started as a whisper has grown into a roar.
Electronic Commerce in Tajikistan – Business-to-Consumer (B2C)
A key trend in the development of modern civilization is consistent and continuous growth of information and knowledge and the role of these in all spheres of economic activities. In fact, many researchers refer to today’s modern society as a ‘post-industrial, ‘informational’ or society based on ‘information economy’. In the 21th century communication is not simply a […]
Surveying ICT use in education in Central and West Asia
Technology use in schools at reasonably large scale began in many OECD countries in earnest in the 1980s and then accelerated greatly in the 1990s, as the Internet and falling hardware prices helped convince education policymakers that the time was right to make large investments in ICTs. In most middle and low income countries, these processes […]
Silicon Valley Giants have joined together to create comfortable conditions for migrants.
Fwd.us (Forward us) is organization started by leaders of tech-community which deals with the problems of migrants in the United States. This community works to encourage Congress to improve the immigration system and develop immigration legislation ensuring border security, providing the opportunity to obtain citizenship for immigrant professionals. Members of the organization believe that the […]
Farhod Pulatov, JustuJu “The problem of development of Tajik sites is very slow because of the search engines”
To control traffic and not spend an extra Mb is very important when 1Mb of internet costs on average $ 0.03. The last three years the majority of providers in Tajikistan created portals and FTP for their subscribers so they can quickly and free of charge to download the files they need. How to create […]
Professional School of GNU/Linux and open source technologies will be open in Dushanbe
School administrators will make servers based on *NIX systems and generally experts on open technologies. Education and certification of students will be held in accordance with the requirements of the labor market of Information Technology (IT). The initiator of the School of GNU/Linux and open source technology is the public organization “Center for Information and […]
Ozod Sidikov, Uroki.tj: “Video-tutorials for $30”
The project was started in July of this year and is growing up by the day. The manager of the project promises that by the end of the year there will be added more features that will provide adding comments blogs. The basic principle of the project – is to promote local content, which will […]
Facebook has added Tajik language
Now social network Facebook had added Tajik language to user’s languages. Translation of Facebook interface is in test mode and 35 percent of it has been translated to Tajik and it’s not available for everyone. Translation of network is set on responsibility of every user who makes the quality of translated materials better. Currently 81 […]