Sentences with phrase «poverty access to technology»

Giving students from poverty access to technology certainly improves outcomes.

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Gates established the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000, a private philanthropic foundation dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing health care, improving education opportunities, and providing access to technology worldwide.

It will be important for developing countries to have access to the technology that can help with education, infrastructure, health and productivity, the tools needed to lift people out of poverty.

With a team of top technology and finance professionals, the nonprofit Stellar.org expands access to low - cost financial services to fight poverty and maximize individual potential.

For example, micro-finance and social investment establishments that offer basic financial services and FinTech companies that are leveraging information technology to enhance access to finance to those that currently rely on informal markets would contribute to more business, employment, income generation and, hence, less poverty.

When discussing equity, there are so many convenient handles — race, gender, language, poverty, access to technology — but there may be a larger view that we're missing.

The Gates Foundation makes monetary pledges «driven by the interests and passions of the Gates Family,» namely global access to health care, international poverty reduction and in the United States, increased access to quality education and information technology.

Over half of teachers in high - poverty schools, «agreed that the «lack of resources or access to digital technologies among students» is a challenge in their classrooms» and that its «results are strongest when the uses of technology... are combined with strategic teacher support...» (Darling - Hammond et al. 2014).

Further studies have shown that even when students in high - poverty schools have greater access to technology than their peers in low - poverty schools, their test scores remain lower.

We transform Los Angeles neighborhoods using a holistic approach to reduce poverty by ensuring families have access to high - quality schools, wraparound education, and technology services, enabling a successful transition from cradle to college and career.

Fourth, new programs will be needed to bridge the gaps in technology access at home, particularly in high - minority and high - poverty schools.

«Teachers realize that while their own impact on children is great, it is not as great as the influence of many other factors, including but not limited to poverty, language proficiency, home life, learning disabilities, level of parental involvement and education, and access to proper facilities and technologies,» said West Hartford teacher Ted Goerner.

The close links between energy and development, assessing today's global picture for access to modern energy, the strategies and technologies that can enable countries to achieve energy for all by 2030, and the ways in which reliable energy can move communities from poverty towards prosperity.

Africa's major economic sectors are vulnerable to current climate sensitivity, with huge economic impacts, and this vulnerability is exacerbated by existing developmental challenges such as endemic poverty, complex governance and institutional dimensions; limited access to capital, including markets, infrastructure and technology; ecosystem degradation; and complex disasters and conflicts.

Billions of people still lack access to modern energy and technology as they struggle to improve their living standards and reduce the negative health impacts of energy poverty, while billions of others enjoy the conveniences of modern life.

Providing access to reliable, affordable energy supplies and modern technologies is essential to lifting billions of people out of grinding poverty.

Faced with a perceived conflict between expanding global energy access and rapidly reducing greenhouse emissions to prevent climate change, many environmental groups and donor institutions have come to rely on small - scale, decentralized, renewable energy technologies that can not meet the energy demands of rapidly growing emerging economies and people struggling to escape extreme poverty.

Doña Maria (pictured above) moved from being one of the 1.4 billion people without access to electricity to one of the several million people who now receive modest amounts of electricity from a solar home system (SHS), which have emerged as keystone technologies in international efforts to address energy poverty.

We can't berate, on the one hand, the problems of the 60 % of the world's population who are in poverty, while on the other denying them access to the technology they will need to become rich.

An additional seven responses that did not expressly mention alternative structures but did address issues related directly to them: Richard Zorza, ABA Commission on Homelessness and Poverty, ABA Law Student Division, ABA Standing Committee on Technology and Information Systems, Avvo, George Chandler, Nina Cornett (issues such as access to justice, limited licensure systems, more effective collaboration between lawyers and the technology industry, pro se representation, self - regulation of the legal prTechnology and Information Systems, Avvo, George Chandler, Nina Cornett (issues such as access to justice, limited licensure systems, more effective collaboration between lawyers and the technology industry, pro se representation, self - regulation of the legal prtechnology industry, pro se representation, self - regulation of the legal profession).

The CAP also found that students from high - poverty areas were less likely to get access to rigorous science and technology learning opportunities.