It’s official!
To quote from our press release
Over 600,000 pupils from across the East Midlands are now benefitting from a groundbreaking £45m service that is helping to boost learning, whilst protecting their online safety
The East Midlands Broadband Community (embc), a procurement partnership of 8 local authorities (Derbyshire, Leicester City, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire and Rutland, has teamed up with IT specialist Synetrix to develop one of the most extensive and advanced learning systems in the world.
As well as having safe and secure internet access in over 2000 schools, pupils are able to access and share their schoolwork and teaching online, chat and e-mail to each other and create their own personalised web sites within a secure community of registered users.
It’s been hard work but it’s cool to be involved in something so undeniably massive and technically challenging. There’s still a lot to do but I’m really looking forward to it.
