Smarter thinking with Ile-de-France to promote digital inclusion in education
“The key to the success of our project was that Logica fully shared in our goals and ambitions.”
Île-de-France Vle at the centre of the region's educational and social plan
With 11.7 million residents spread across 1281 municipalities in eight geographic areas, Île-de-France is the most populous region in France.
Île-de-France is responsible for implementing education programmes in the region’s lycées (schools for students from 15-18 years). To reduce inequality in educational achievement among students, the Île-de-France regional government defined major goals for its education policy.
The Challenge
The key challenge was to help 1.2 million users, including 475,000 "lycées" students, join the digital age – and to use this activity to bring together the educational community.
The aim was not only to make the tool available, but to foster its use. There were four primary objectives:
- Integrate registration, results and authorisation services,
- Strengthen communication between members of the education community,
- Promote educational success,
- Use open technology to promote sharing.
Logica knew that we had to convince the Regional government that we could implement this ambitious project.
Planning For Success
The deployment, which began in October 2009, will continue until the end of 2012, by which time all 471 "lycées" will be equipped with the VLE. One year after the start of the project, we are already seeing 10,000 connections per day, at 150 institutions.
Indeed, Île-de-France is well-positioned to lead the way internationally with its VLE programme as schools in other countries will be able to take advantage of it too.
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