Which Intel are yer babbling about? Is it this Intel, or another one?
'Intel to open tech centre in Gaza
Monday 20 February 2006, 23:15 Makka Time, 20:15 GMT
Intel, the world's largest semiconductor company, is planning to build the first information technology education centre in the Gaza Strip.
The Intel Information Technology Centre of Excellence is intended to provide IT training to Palestinians and stimulate development of high-tech industry in an area where half the labour force is unemployed.
The centre is being developed in conjunction with Washington DC-based American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) and the Islamic University of Gaza, The East Valley Tribune newspaper in Arizona reported.
Chuck Mulloy, an Intel spokesman, told the newspaper: "We don't want to discount the tension in the area ... but from our perspective, we view it as something that can have a positive impact.
"If you talk to the leaders of the Palestinian Authority, this is exactly the kind of thing they want. They want education, they want paths to improve the economic well-being of their citizens."
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Gaza IT Center Prepares To Break Ground
The goal is to train Gaza residents in everything from computer use to managing networks, to help reduce the 33% unemployment rate among the 1.3 million people living in the region.
By K.C. Jones
TechWeb News
Feb 21, 2006 07:31 PM
Intel and American Near East Refugee Aid plan to break ground on a Gaza Intel Information Technology Center of Excellence within two months.
Representatives of both organizations confirmed plans for the groundbreaking during interviews Tuesday. The center, planned for the Islamic University of Gaza, will be the fourth of its kind in the Middle East and is part of broader and separate Intel and ANERA Middle East initiatives.
ANERA formed 37 years ago to provide job, health, education and emergency war relief opportunities in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon. The nonprofit group partnered with Intel to open a similar center at Al Quds University in Jerusalem in 2004. Since then, more than 1,000 men and women have trained there.
The latest center will be the first of its kind in Gaza and should be completed by next year, according to representatives from ANERA and Intel. A Gaza pilot program, established in 1999 raised the number of residents trained in Java, Oracle and Microsoft from seven to 66. Now, several of those who completed the pilot program are teaching others.
The push to train Gaza residents in everything from computer use to managing networks aims to alleviate a 33 percent unemployment rate among the 1.3 million people living in Gaza, ANERA's Director of Communications Adrian Loucks said during an interview Tuesday.
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