“Gratuitous educational content from middle school to Master’s degree level…will be a paradigm change in which the equality of the content is one-hundred percent control,” said Arturo Elías Ayub, Telmex Foundation General Director.
Mexico’s public education system is ranked among the lowest performing and has been criticized for low levels of academic rigor. The Carlos Slim Foundation has reached official agreements with Mexico’s Secretary of Public Education (SEP) and the Khan Academy so that some of the courses can be officially recognized.
In addition Slim revealed that his company is working on increasing connectivity through smartphones to those that still have no access to the Internet in order to have access to the educational platform.
“This project will be presented in September before the International Union of Telecommunications (UIT), with the goal being that other countries join this initiative and more people around the world can have better connectivity,” Slim explained.
