Computer and telecommunications technologies are omnipresent in our society today. Computer usage-mail and internet use, and home purchases of computers are growing rapidly(Benton Foundation 1996a,Gonzalez 1995,Katz and Aspden 1997,Miringhoff and Carvalho 1996. At the same time, not everyone has adequate opportunities to learn about and use computer and information technologies.

PANDA SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL, SPAIN PRESENTS THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS AWARD ‘INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY INITIATIVE PANDA IT AID, 2006  TO GOODWILL SOCIAL WORK CENTRE, MADURAI, INDIA Goodwill social work centre, an Indian NGO based at Madurai,India has been declared as one of  four  the winners of “Panda IT Aid”, Panda Software International, Spain(www.pandasoftware.com). The other organisations are Save the Children (with a pan-European project),Spain,  Fundación Braille (Uruguay) and Paideia (Paraguay). These four winning projects were selected from 15 finalists through a vote held among all the employees of the Panda Group across 56 countries.