Pudong New Area Education Information Center Agreement on Education Application Software Access
Exhibit 10.58
Pudong New Area Education Information Center
Agreement on Education Application Software Access
Access Code: PD0002
Party A: Shanghai Broadband Network Inc. (Hereinafter called "Party A")
Party B: Shanghai Pudong Education Information Center (Hereinafter called "Party B")
I. Supplier of the Education Application Software：Shanghai Broadband Network Inc.
Legal representative: Xxxxx Xxxxx
Address：Suites 1201-1214, Xxxxxx Commercial Building, 710 Dongfang RD, Pudong, Shanghai, P.R. China
Tel：00000000
II. Name of the Education Application Software：E-Ya Kids English
1. Functions: E-Ya Kids English is a brand new English learning program introduced and developed by Party A (Shanghai Broadband Network Inc.) Designed by international ESL experts, it is a game-based, animated multimedia interactive courseware for children aged from 5 to 13. E-Ya Kids English presents its teaching materials through multimedia, which allows younger learners to pick up new knowledge while playing interesting interactive computer games. Throughout children will find themselves studying English in an exciting and stimulating learning environment.
2. Price：
Campus network version: each school 30,000/ year
Metropolitan area network version: each district 800,000/ year
3. Fee for membership:
School: each class 100RMB/ month
Individual: each student 00 XXX/ month
4. Number of shared users：120 schools and their registered students
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III. Obligations of Party A:
1. Provide Party B with all the content of E-Ya Kids English courseware, including its online interactive learning software system.
2. Bear all the liabilities and obligations with respect to the copyright of E-Ya Kids English courseware. Be responsible for all the correcting and upgrading work of the whole online interactive software system.
3. Provide the related project promotion, teachers' training, software maintenance and technical support.
4. Directly charge fee from schools on a discount basis. 10% of the total revenue goes into the collaborative project as a reinvestment.
5. Supervise the students' online their learning activities, collect and study the feedback. Develop and promote E-Ya Kids English and its related education product.
IV. Obligations of Party B:
1. Provide the network platform accessing all the schools in Pudong. Maintain the security and stability of the platform.
2. Contribute 400,000 RMB as start-up funds for the software introduction and development, and as basic access fee for all the Pudong schools.
3. Assist in project promotion, including "E-Ya Kids English Membership School Project" and "E-Ya Kids English Online Learning Project". Help Party A in coordinating with the government and other related department, e.g. the Teaching and Research Office, the Education Institute...etc.
4. Help Party A in organizing training courses, promotion and publicizing activities, and membership fee collection. Help in instructing and supervising the management of E-Ya Kids project.
V. Membership fee specification and fee charging procedure
1. Fee for Individual student members
Students voluntarily purchase pre-paid cards (only for after school use) at the price of 00 XXX / month for each student, that is, 000 XXX / year.
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Special price：The membership fee shall be paid for a whole year by one lump sum, 000 XXX / year.
2. Fee for member schools
Party B subsidizes each member school with an membership fee of 4000RMB per year.
Member schools are charged according to the number of their organizational classes that use E-Ya Kids. e.g. The school shall pay 100RMB per month for each organizational class. That means one organizational class shall pay a lump sum of 1000RMB per school year (only for campus use).
Special price：Member schools that cover more than 100 individual student members shall enjoy a 50% discount of its school membership fee, while those that cover more than 200 shall enjoy the school membership service for free.
3. Member schools could also own a two-year-access by purchasing the whole system of E-Ya Kids English by one lump sum, at the price of 30,000 RMB per access package.
4. How to charge:
Party A shall write invoices to charge fee directly or consign Party B to collect the fee.
VI. Intellectual property protection and overhead expenses
1. Party A reserves the copyright of E-Ya Kids English software system. Party B shall not use the product beyond the scope stipulated in this agreement.
2. Both parties shall restrict disclosure of the content of this agreement, the other party's confidential information disclosed through working contact or through any other channels.
3. Neither of the parties shall use, duplicate, and spread without authorization, the related cooperator's trademarks, logos, and business information, technology...etc.
4. Party A possesses the intellectual property right of E-Ya Kids English and all the other related extension products.
5. Overhead expenses
- The first year -- Given that the sales within Pudong New Area exceeds 400,000 RMB, Party A shall pay back 50%, that is 200,000 RMB, to Party B for the initial contribution of basic access fee. The contrary case shall adapt to consultation between both parties.
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- The 2nd year goes the same way as the first year.
- From the 3rd year, 5%~10% of the sales goes to Party B as the expenses for hardware maintenance.
VII. This agreement remains valid within the scope of the primary schools and middle schools in Pudong New Area.
VIII. This agreement, after its being signed, shall remain in force for 5 years, and it shall be extended upon expiration. Each party shall submit an application 60 days ahead to terminate the agreement through friendly consultation.
1. While Party A shall install all the software with regard to E-Ya Kids English on xxx.xxxxxx-xxx.xx.xx one week after this agreement is signed, Party B shall contribute 400,000 RMB as the start-up fund.
2. Neither shall the two parties be regarded as breach of the agreement, nor be held responsible for failure or delay to perform all or any part of this agreement due to direct or indirect war (being declared or not), emergency, strike, industrial dissension, accident, sever out of service due to the virus spread by any third party, sever being attacked, fire, earthquake, flood, storm, snowstorm, war or any other events which could not be predicted, controlled, avoided or overcome by the relative party.
3. Should either of the parties, while executing the agreement, be or tend to be delayed or influenced by factors resulted from neither of the parties, the party influenced shall notice the other party in writing or other forms that have been recognized by both parties.
4. This agreement is signed in four equally authentic copies and each party holds two. The items not referred to shall be added under two parties' friendly consultation.
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Party A: Shanghai Broadband NetworkInc. |
Party B: Shanghai Pudong Education Information Center |
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Legal representative: /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxx |
Legal representative: /s/ Tan Xxxx Xxx |
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Date: 2004.5.30 |
Date: 2004.5.30 |
