I was sent a press release from Promethean Ireland entitled “Promethean Wins Major Spanish Tender.” In normal circumstances, I wouldn’t be interested in a headline like this. However, Spain, like Ireland, is going through some serious economic problems. The news that 4,550 interactive whiteboards are to be installed in Andalucia in an education technology roll-out just made me think about how they were doing this.
More than 1,900 schools in the region will have boards installed. This project is being funded through the Spanish Government’s Escuela ICT 2.0 programme, one of a number of financial stimulus packages targeted at education technology currently being implemented across the EU.
Hold on a second… aren’t we in the EU too? Shouldn’t we be getting enough money for interactive technology? The money we got in December wasn’t part of this, as far as I know.
So basically, Spain have decided to target education in order to get out of recession. We haven’t. Hmmm…Donde esta el Ryanair website?
