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Welcome to the Mid-Pacific
ICT Center
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In the information and knowledge economies of the 21st
century, we all increasingly depend on information and
communications technologies - and the increased connectivity
and productivity they enable.
Information and
Communications Technologies (ICT) is an umbrella term, widely
used outside the United States and in the United Nations, to
encompass all rapidly emerging, evolving and converging
computer, software, networking, telecommunications, Internet,
programming and information systems technologies.
Improvements to deployed ICT technologies, infrastructure,
systems and solutions, and people’s abilities to productively
use them, are strategically important issues to individuals
and organizations of all kinds – and to local, state, national
and global economies.
To enhance education initiatives
in this field, the
National
Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education (ATE)
program has awarded a 4 year, $3 million
grant to establish the Mid-Pacific ICT (MPICT) Center, at
City College of
San Francisco.
MPICT’s mission is to coordinate,
promote and improve the quality of ICT education, with an
emphasis on 2-year colleges, in a region consisting of
northern California, northern Nevada, southern Oregon, Hawaii
and the Pacific Territories.
To accomplish this
mission, MPICT has launched with 4 Regional Partner schools:
Ohlone
College,
Cabrillo
College,
Foothill College and
Santa Rosa
Junior College, which together with City College of San
Francisco’s
Computer Networking and Information Technologies (CNIT)
and
Computer Science (CS) departments, represent the San
Francisco Bay Area.
MPICT endeavors to:
- Champion
the importance of ICT
- Build collaborative relationships
with the rich ICT industry resources of the San Francisco Bay
Area and Silicon Valley to improve ICT education
- Coordinate efforts to harmonize, improve and communicate
educational and career pathways and experiences in ICT
- Expand and diversify
the skilled ICT workforce
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HI-TECH Conference
Q2 '09
Newsletter
MPICT Regional Partner RFP |
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