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Annual Report 2002

People, Productivity, and the Network - Education

"The Cisco Networking Academy will give me new opportunities as a civilian, following a successful 22-year career in the military.”

Clarence Mitchell
Cisco Networking Academy Graduate
Communications Workers of America Academy
Maryland
"After receiving my certification in networking, the IT industry doors opened wide. I had three competing offers from companies that needed my skills."

Daniel Sedibeng
Cisco Networking Academy Graduate
Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
South Africa
 
 
"Learning the basics of networking was a stepping stone for me to successfully change my career from shipping to IT, thanks to the Cisco Networking Academy."

Khor Kean Hock
Cisco Networking Academy Graduate
Network Engineer
Singapore
"I'm using the Internet to communicate with people all over the world. It's amazing. It's a heady business, actually. We're really becoming a global community.”

Douglas D. Osheroff
1996 Nobel Laureate in Physics
 
 
"The network is vital to the university. Virtually everyone in this community of ideas interacts electronically, addressing today's issues and opportunities. Decades ago, NYU and other research universities energized the Internet's origins. Today we pioneer new networking applications that will spark similar transformations."

Marilyn McMillan
Associate Provost and
Chief Information Technology Officer
New York University
 
 
"The remarkable productivity resurgence in the American economy in recent years can be traced quite directly to increased business use of information technologies, including the Internet. Economists in every major institution have revised upward their projections of future trend productivity growth as a result, and living standards will be commensurately higher."

Erik Brynjolfsson
Professor, Sloan School of Management,
MIT Director, Center for eBusiness at MIT
 
 
"Internet skills allow for women's development and equality with their male counterparts, closing the gap that, for many years, has marginalized women."

Beth Murora
Cisco Networking Academy Graduate
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Academy
Program Officer, Ministry of Women's Affairs
Rwanda
"I gained confidence and a feeling of significance by receiving my CCNA® certification while in high school. I couldn't have done it without the Cisco Networking Academy."

Terezia Matejovic
Cisco Networking Academy Graduate
High School Salutatorian, attending Xavier University
Ohio
 

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