September 7, 2001
New Online Effort Will Help Developing Nations
The Australian government will spend more than $100-million over the next five years on a program aimed at bringing education and skills training to developing countries via the Internet.
The plan was announced last month by the Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, and the president of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn. Mr. Wolfensohn, an Australian expatriate, proposed the idea on a visit to Australia late last year.
Dubbed the "virtual Colombo plan," after an aid program in the
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