"Bill Gates kicks off e-education project in Ankara
Monday, January 31, 2005
Microsoft Corporation boss Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, paid a four-hour visit to Turkey yesterday at the invitation of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He was scheduled to attend a ceremony to launch an e-education portal that will help teachers at state schools get training on the Internet.
Gates met with Erdogan and four Cabinet ministers in a closed-door discussion.
Gates, whose personal wealth exceeds $48 billion, was also expected to make a donation to the Education Ministry to help in the education of schoolchildren.
The opening of an e-education portal comes as part of a $30-million project to boost the use of computer and Internet technologies in education. "
Turkish Daily News