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The Caribbean Universities Project for Integrated Distance Education (CUPIDE)
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_org - assumed 'prj_org' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 40 Lead Organisation	The University of the West Indies
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_toa - assumed 'prj_toa' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 52 Type of Project Activity	Development project with ICT4D component
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_url - assumed 'prj_url' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 64 Project URL	http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewarticle.php?id=49&layout=html
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_description - assumed 'prj_description' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 78 Brief Description	Immediate objectives: 1.To collaboratively develop the pilot course on distance education; 2.To (further) develop the institutional strategic plans for distance education incorporating the use of ICT; 3.To develop and implement a mechanism for electronic distribution of materials; 4.To develop a Web portal; 5.To implement the VSAT3 network based on E-Link Americas; 6.Based on the strategic plan of each institution, to identify specific programmes and staffing requirements and training for each of the universities; 7.To identify appropriate personnel (academic, administrative, technical) in each institution to be trained in ICT for teaching, administration, and materials delivery, thereby building the human resource capacity in the provider institutions; 8.To provide where necessary technical assistance in the development of the technical, administrative, and educational systems based on the use of ICT; 9.To train the persons who have to use the technology including students; 10.To identify the requisite recurrent budgetary support; 11.To establish with the support of CARICOM and other such bodies strategic linkages with providers and manufacturers; 12.Working with CARADOL4 to continue to strengthen the links among the universities and other institutions; 13.To develop projections of prospects for expansion to other institutions at different levels of the educational system; 14.To evaluate the project.
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_contact_name - assumed 'prj_contact_name' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 90 Contact name	Ms. Christine Marrett
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_contact_email - assumed 'prj_contact_email' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 102 Contact email	christine.marrett@uwimona.edu.jm
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Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_aff_org - assumed 'prj_aff_org' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 138 Affiliated Organisations	UNESCO(executing agency)
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_fund_agencies - assumed 'prj_fund_agencies' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 150 Funding Agencies	Japanese Funds-In-Trust for Capacity Building
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_beneficiaries - assumed 'prj_beneficiaries' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 162 Target Beneficiaries	The University of West Indies, University of Guyana, University Quisqueya (Haiti), Anton de Kom University of Suriname, University of Technology, Jamaica.
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_start_date - assumed 'prj_start_date' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 174 Start Date	15-03-2006
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_end_date - assumed 'prj_end_date' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 186 End Date	15-03-2006
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_budget - assumed 'prj_budget' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 198 Project Budget	N/A
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_status_description - assumed 'prj_status_description' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 210 Current Status	In progess
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_cnt - assumed 'prj_cnt' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 222 Countr(ies) Involved	Suriname;Jamaica;Haiti;Guyana
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_sec - assumed 'prj_sec' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 234 Sector	Education
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_ict_description - assumed 'prj_ict_description' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 246 Description of ICT Components	the adoption of Internet and web based technologies as the platform for the delivery of distance education, provided the rationale for the CUPIDE project to be revisited in 2004 with regard to the choices of technologies in delivering on its purpose and to seek the benefits through synergies within the overall umbrella of the CARICOM agenda and in particular the Caribbean Knowledge and Learning Network (CKLN) and E-Links Americas2.
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_mdg - assumed 'prj_mdg' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 258 Millennium Development Goals	2. Education;8. Global partnerships
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The Caribbean Universities Project for Integrated Distance Education (CUPIDE)