AGREEMENT WITH E-LEARNING FOUNDATION
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17 March 2009
AMTEUS PLC
(Amteus" or the "Company")
AGREEMENT WITH E-LEARNING FOUNDATION
Amteus, the digital educational networking and media business, is pleased to
announce that the e-Learning Foundation, a charitable organisation focused on
increasing IT access for children (the "e-LF") has signed a Memorandum of
Understanding ("MOU") with the Company's reseller partner to roll-out imJack,
the secure Web 2.0 communication and collaboration platform. The product will be
provided, free of charge, to all e-LF affiliated schools under the Company's
business sponsorship model which was launched at BETT, the world's largest
educational technology event, in January 2009.
The Company anticipates the imJack product will be rolled out to all 312 e-LF
affiliated schools by the end of 2009:
* creating an estimated 312,000 new user licences across the community, which
will enable participating schools to connect teachers, pupils and parents; and
* providing users with Web 2.0 toolkits, which enable VOIP, IM and group video
conferencing, as well as news feeds, file sharing capability and links to
interactive whiteboard and polling capability.
The imJack team will work with the e-LF to achieve higher levels of access to
information and communications technology ("ICT") for pupils, parents and
teachers within affiliated schools. Schools in different geographical areas
will also be linked through the platform, enabling the sharing of electronic
resources between sites, live collaboration online, communication and sharing of
lesson plans.
In the coming weeks and months, the Company will be encouraging all the e-LF
schools to "GetActive" on the platform, using registrations, file sharing and
regular polls. imJack is also supporting the Foundation's Spring Conference in
May 2009, entitled "Preparing for Home Access", which will be attended by head
teachers, senior school management, bursars, business managers, ICT managers,
educational suppliers and local authorities.
imJack's business model is to raise funding through sponsorship, via
partnerships with both public and private sector organisations, enabling the
product to be provided free of charge to participating schools. Prior to the
agreement with the e-LF, imJack had already secured 500,000 registered users
following its commercial launch in November 2008. The imJack commercial team is
confident that it will be able to match the interests of sponsors with those of
schools and students, in supporting education and bringing state-of-the-art
digital communications technology to any school that requires it.
Len Sanderson, CEO of Amteus, said: "The MOU with the e-Learning Foundation
will enable a further 312,000 users, including teachers, learners and their
families, to use the imJack platform.We are very proud to be associated with the
Foundation in its aim to ensure that every child in the UK, whatever their start
in life, has access to technology for learning at home."
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For further information, please contact:
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| Amteus plc | Tel: 01653 618016 |
| Len Sanderson, CEO | www.amteus.com |
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| John East & Partners Limited | Tel: 020 7628 2200 |
| John East/Simon Clements | |
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| Rawlings Financial PR Ltd | Tel: 01653 618016 |
| Catriona Valentine | |
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About imJack
imJack enables teachers and parents to communicate with and guide students,
while removing the many dangers of using unregulated public sites. It operates
on a secure system by separating a defined user network from general internet
traffic and by using SSL encryption technology to maintain privacy and security
for all users.
Students can upload and download homework, share ideas and chat to their friends
through messaging or video conferencing, which is an integral part of the
system. imJack is centrally administered, so the school alone decides who can
and cannot be part of the network.
imJack automatically logs and creates a permanent record of communication
between the parties on the system. This is only accessible by the administrator
for safety, security and legal reasons. imJack also allows truly live
interactive collaborative working with features including real-time drawing
exchange, video conferencing and document management. In this way, teachers and
pupils can exchange documents and sketches, while maintaining a video conference
link.
imJack software is offered as a software package hosted on open source
technology.Additional modules include an interactive calendar, real time surveys
and polls, as well as educational content, tutorials, news aggregation and
explanatory journalism, etc.
The Company now has strategic alliances through its reseller partner with the
Specialist Schools and Academies Trust ("SSAT"), Leading Edge Partnership
Programme ("LEPP") and the e-Learning Foundation, the only national charity
dedicated to ensuring that every child in the UK has home access to technology
for their studies.
The Amteus business model provides imJack free to schools, colleges and
universities and aims to generate income from both sponsorship and digital news.
This income is shared with those schools, colleges and universities, providing
them with an additional contribution on top of their funding from the private
sector.
About the e-Learning Foundation
The e-Learning Foundation was launched in 2001 with an aim to significantly
increase access to ICT for education, and specifically to ensure that every
child in the UK should have home access to technology for learning when and
where they want to learn.
The Foundation, a registered charity, aims to bridge the digital divide and
ensure that all children, irrespective of their background, can have access to
technology for learning especially at home, working in partnership with schools,
parents and businesses.
www.e-learningfoundation.com
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