01/23/2008: "Local Man Takes CEO Role At SNS Project Inkwell"

Strategic News ServiceT (SNS) today announced that its CEO and publisher Mark Anderson has been named as CEO of SNS Project Inkwell. Project Inkwell is an international consortium of global vendors whose goal is to accelerate the worldwide deployment of student-appropriate technologies and teacher training for K-12 in a one-to-one computing and learning environment.

The consortium includes IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, IDEO, Gateway, Clearwire, Promethean, QED, Steljes, Inspiration Software, and many other companies in educational technology and content.

Inkwell was the first international industry group organized to (re)design appropriate K12 technology, the result of years of planning with vendors, teachers, administrators and students; and it remains the leading multi-vendor effort in this industry.

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Anderson, an internationally renowned technology-industry CEO who has served as Chair since founding Project Inkwell in 2004, believes that "implementing one-to-one in pre-university classrooms is the most important single step a state or nation can take in improving economic performance."

As an initiative designed to encourage "super learners" and less-advantaged students alike, Project Inkwell's mission is to provide students and teachers with access to the world's digitized knowledge, and to take the risk out of implementing this change as states and countries move forward along this inevitable path. This includes improving test scores, but also improving important but less tangible metrics: keeping kids in school, reducing absenteeism, reducing teacher churn, removing inequities in education, and promoting more active engagement among students and teachers.

Governmental support for Project Inkwell continues to grow, from the U.S. Departments of Education and Commerce and the World Bank, to a growing list of U.S. governors, including Janet Napolitano (AZ), (past) Gov. Angus King (ME), Jon Huntsman (UT), and Christine Gregoire (WA).

The project has met all of its scheduled goals to date, including the design of a new teaching and learning device.