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...underutilized minds trying to satisfy their creative yearnings but kept from doing so by a variety of factors. Besides the stinging poverty that has translated into few programming gigs, political instability and the wrong kind of computer training have kept the country from following India as a beneficiary of low-cost Internet spin-off jobs, either in software or services like call centers or technical support help desks. Some 350,000 students are enrolled in computer colleges across the Philippines, but there are far fewer jobs to match their skills...
...terminal. Neither of his parents?his dad is a machinist, his mom a store clerk?had even used a typewriter. Hungry for more than he could learn in his small hometown, Eyestrain went to Manila at age 17 to attend Systems Technology Institute, a technical college that offers low-cost programming courses. The classes were disappointing: Eyestrain found that he knew more than his teachers. "They exempted me from classes and got me to help administer the computers," he recalls. He tried another computer school, but soon gave up on receiving a formal education in programming. Without the family...
...discrepancy between the Boston and Cambridge donations brought comparisons to the 20/20/2000 initiative that the University announced with Cambridge and Boston last fall. That deal offered the same amount of money--$10 million in low-cost loans--to both cities...
...discrepancy between the Boston and Cambridge donations brought comparisons to the 20/20/2000 initiative that the University announced with Cambridge and Boston last fall. That deal offered the same amount of money--$10 million in low-cost loans--to both cities...
...described "micro-planning" projects he and his team of researchers have carried out to begin closing those gaps, such as low-cost greenhouses and wireless Internet connections...