2000 Edition
The first edition of the Global Junior Challenge has been a great success: more than 580 projects from 49 countries have joined the competition. The Global Junior Challenge is the first world collection of best practices in the field of education and training. More than half of the projects were presented by primary and secondary schools. More than 4000 students visited the exhibition together with their teachers.
The Global Junior Challenge has been a first global spontaneous monitoring of ICT in education; the emerging picture is with lots of activities and motivations in the schools.
To know the first edition of the Global Junior Challenge you can go at this web address:
www.gjc.it/2000/olddefault.htm.
2002 Edition
The Global Junior Challenge 2002 is mainly dedicated to "digital divide", especially among young generations. The gap between those who have access to the knowledge generated by new technologies and those who are excluded are rapidly increasing. This dangerous unbalance is reinforcing not only between countries from North and South of the world, but also among the same countries creating new form of social exclusion. This year the Global Junior Challenge award will pay special attention to projects and initiatives that tackle this problem and work to overcome the digital divide.
During the second edition of the Global Junior Challenge it was very important the development of the spirit of international solidarity through an effort to twin ten Italian schools with schools from poor countries in the world.
An important moment of the Global Junior Challenge 2002 was the birth of the Global Inclusion Movement against the digital divide in the world.
To know the second edition of the Global Junior Challenge you can go at this web address::
www.gjc.it/2002/index.asp.