Educarchile turns on Google Apps for Education for Chile

Posted by Scott McMullan, Google Enterprise Partner Team

Educarchile took advantage of the "turn on, dial up" power of Google Apps recently when they made Google Apps Education Edition available to all their users on the educarchile.cl domain.

Educarchile, created by the Chilean Ministry of Education and Fundación Chile, was founded in order to diminish the digital gap among the poorer schools and students in Chile by spreading the use of communication technologies with educational purposes. Google Apps furthers that mission by bringing the same powerful messaging and collaboration tools like Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, and Google Docs and Spreadsheets, currently used by Google employees, to every Educarchile member. In one fell swoop.

Fast is great, but a key requirement was simplicity. We're constantly asked "why can't it just work like Gmail and Google.com?" The good news is that it can. On a tight deadline, they were able to meet other user experience requirements like Single Sign On with the help of Google Apps APIs and Google Enterprise Professional partner LTech. Suddenly the same user name and password just works with all of Google Apps.

We look forward to spreading this kind of power to more users like Educarchile.