INFRASTRUCTURE and EDUCATION

ICS has over twenty-five years experience in implementing ambitious solutions in the educational sector and this year, ICS has again been selected by the World Bank to implement wide-ranging projects on their behalf in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

Founded in 1944, the World Bank Group is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. The Bank, which provided US$17.3 billion in loans to its client countries in fiscal year 2001, is now working in more than 100 developing economies, bringing a mix of finance and ideas to improve living standards and eliminate the worst forms of poverty.

For each of its clients, the Bank works with government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector to formulate assistance strategies. The selection of ICS hinged on our flexibility, and on our capacity to deliver the highest quality of training and skills transfer services to the World Bank's client, as well as making available comprehensive technical assistance at all times.

Networked World

ICS is a London-based skills company with a profound grasp of the complex mixture of skills needed to ensure success in large-scale operations in the most far-flung environments. With the World Bank, we are now working to implement a fully networked educational solution across a vast geographical area, to tie together a broad spectrum of varied educational establishments into a co-operative system.

The challenge is as much educational as one of providing infrastructure, and for that purpose ICS knowledge-workers have also been tasked to train end-user personnel in the complex technologies and methodologies required to manage such a system. The ICS solution is designed to facilitate the development of IT and technical skills, so that a new generation can receive hands-on access to technology, as well as training, to become the knowledge workers of the future.

From our inception in 1978, ICS have been committed to educational technology and to delivering the best training to equip people with the skills they need, and are pleased to be able to work with such a prestigious client in such a complex and rewarding environment. The World Bank’s MENA Education Sector presently manages a portfolio of 22 projects at various stages of preparation and implementation; this immense portfolio of projects spans the full range of education levels, from early child development to university education. ICS is pleased to contribute to the success of such ambitious projects in this way, with education at the heart of the future development of the region, and in environments where there can be no tolerance of failure, to deliver the highest quality solutions.