The Boston Group and Lydia, Inc. Join Forces on International eLearning Project

New development will enable rapid, low cost educational and training services

NORTHBOROUGH, Mass. (June 2, 2002)— The Boston Group today announced the creation of an international eLearning project called “Lydia Global Repository,” developed in conjunction with Dr. Thomas H. Probert, founder of Lydia, Inc.

This Web-based exchange will allow the development and sale of eLearning resources anywhere in the world. The creation effort spanned seven years and involved several thousand hours of research and development.

“The Lydia Global Repository intends to make international eLearning possible by providing an Internet-based open exchange of learning resources to authors and distributors of computer-based education and training,” said Dr. Probert. “This global repository of reusable eLearning objects will include the ability to use currently available tools and services to ensure the cost efficient creation and delivery of learning.”

The Lydia Global Repository is a vendor-neutral database management system that supports protection of intellectual property and manages compensated worldwide development and distribution of eLearning resources.

“This philosophy of openness and vendor/platform neutrality enables the use of virtually any style or approach to eLearning resource development,” said Subu Kota, chairman of The Boston Group. “We are rapidly developing new relationships with corporations, educational institutions and service providers worldwide to provide further sharing of reusable eLearning resources.”

About The Boston Group

The Boston Group (TBG) is a global provider of software development and technical consulting to a broad range of Fortune 1000 companies. TBG has successfully developed highly technical solutions that solve a range of problems from development of back-end business critical systems to applying the Internet to non-Internet businesses.

About Lydia, Inc.

Lydia, Inc., exchange offers solutions to the emerging multi-billion dollar eLearning industry that manages intellectual property rights while addressing the existing problems of development, composition, management and distribution of educational and training content around the world. Lydia’s suite of Knowledge Management Repository offerings can be distributed and networked with several flexible, dynamic options, allowing for the necessary interaction arising from sharing and partnering.