Video Communications, Inc.

Israeli and Iraqi Teens Agree to Historic Peace Talks via LifeSize® and Codian® High Definition Video Communications

LifeSize®, the high definition video communications company, and Codian®, the leading manufacturer of high definition videoconferencing infrastructure, today announced that ISIME in partnership with RJ Macklin Associates have selected LifeSize and Codian as the high definition video communications providers for a historic peace summit between Israeli and Iraqi students taking place at the Cable Center on the University of Denver campus today [August 9th, 2007] at 9:30 a.m. Mountain Time.

Led by Executive Director Professor Shaul Gabbay and human rights activist Barb Vogel, 25 Iraqi high school students visiting the University of Denver will have the opportunity to see faces, hear the voices, ask questions and begin a dialogue of mutual respect and understanding with teens in Israel representing Arabs, Jews, Christians and Moslems.

Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the world’s leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, [Nov 13, 2007] announced Project Africa, a four-week project that includes an interactive video conferencing session between U.S. students and fifth-grade activist and author Stefan Lyon who has made it his mission to serve as an ambassador for improving the lives of African students. Project Africa encourages students to collaborate with Lyon through several curriculum-focused fundraising events with resulting monies to be used to help build a schoolhouse in Western Kenya, Africa.

Read the full article: Students video conference to raise money for African schoolhouse

Technorati Tags: polycom video conferencing, fund raising