Information Technology and Global Development
Issues
International Organizations:
- The 2B1 Foundation .... Meet
/ contact the attendees of the first ever 2B1 Gathering
- UNESCO's
Learning Without Frontiers
- Global Knowledge
( is the home of a growing partnership anddialogue focused on
harnessing knowledge and information as tools of sustainable and equitable
development and mobilizing the innovations and resources of the information
revolution as tools to empower the world's poor.)
- The First Global Knowledge '97 Conference (held in
June of 1997 in Toronto)
- The Omar Dengo Foundation
- International Development
Research Centre
- I*EARN (International
Education and Resource Network)
- The International
Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) (Youth
International Internship Program)
- World Links
for Development (Economic Institute of
the World Bank) Contact Sam
Carlson or Linda McGinnis
- International
Center for Human Rights and Democratic Development
- International Development
Network (Information Resources for Sustainable
Development)
- The Bellanet Initiative (Development assistance agencies created the Bellanet
Initiative to work with the development community to use information and
communication technologies (ICTs) more effectively to broaden collaboration,
increase participation and transparency of action and facilitate the diffusion
of lessons learned.)
- CIDA (The Canadian International
Development Agency)
- CARE
- Oxfam
- Save the Children
- The United Nations
- The
UNPD: The United Nations Social Development Program
(SDPE: Social Development and Poverty Elimination Division)
- The World Bank
- The Global
Development Centre.....The
Wiring Guatemala Project
- The Future
of Children
- RED Educacional
ENLACES (from Chile)
- NETCORPS
Prime Minsters' Announcement in Santiago Through the Canada NetCorps
Americas program Canadians from 18 to 30 will work in nations throughout
the hemisphere to develop Internet capabilities, such as networks, software
and computer training. The program will place up to 50 young Canadians
in the Americas for 6 to 12 months with organizations, indigenous groups,
businesses and institutions.
- Canada's
NETCORPS Home Page
- Philanthropy Journal Online: Non-Profits, Charities, NGOs
- The Electronic Frontier
Foundation
- Internet Nonprofit
Center
- Nonprofit
Resources Catalogue
- Idealist.org (14,000 organizations under one roof)
- Progressive Possibilities Resources
- USAID
LearnLink
- The
USAID Leland Initiative (for Africa)
- Nation1
- Global Learning Online (This site
is for anyone interested in finding out or teaching about global issues.)
- The American Forum
for Global Education Promoting the education
of American youth for responsible citizenship in an increasingly interconnected
and rapidly changing world.
- The Institute for Global
Communications: (Their Mission: To expand
and inspire movements for peace, economic and social justice, human rights,
and environmental sustainability around the world by providing and developing
accessible computer networking tools.)
- African Information for K-12 Education
- The Multicultural Pavillion
- Networking
in Developing Nations
- The Information
Society and the Developing World
- Virtual
Zimbabwe
- International
African Institute
- Links to Many International Organizations
- The American JumpStart
Project Online
Community Access / Technology Centres:
Aboriginal / Indigenous Cultures / 2B1 Schools:
Professional Development:
Related Literature / Research
- Nicholas
Negroponte's Wired Arcticle About 2B1
- World Bank's 1998 World Development Report: Knowledge for Development
- Experimental
School Environments: Press Release
- Why
do Student Projects?
- The Future
of Children: (reports)
- Experimental
School Environments
- Epistemology
and Learning Research Group at M.I.T.
- The
Gesture and Narrative Language Group at the MIT Media Lab
- Educational Testing Service
Network
- Office of
Technology Assessment (U.S. Congress)
- Multicultural
Curriculum Resources: The Explorer Trail Outstanding links to
multicultural sites of interest to elementary teachers and students
- Constructive
Learning Philosophy at LEGO
- Further LOGO
Books and Reading
- "LOGO Update" (The LOGO Foundation Newsletter)
- Martin,
Fred The
Robotic Design Project
- Negroponte, Nicholas
"Being
Digital" © 1995 First Vintage Books ISBN : 0-679-43919-6
- Papert,
Seymour "The Connected Family" ©1996 Longstreet Press Inc. ISBN:
1-56352-335-3
- Papert,
Seymour "The Children's Machine" ©1993 Basic
Books / Harper Collins ISBN: 0-46501063-6
- Papert,
Seymour "Mindstorms -Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas
- Postman,
Neil "Technopoly" © 1993 First Vintage Books
ISBN: 0-679-74540-8
- Technology
Outcomes Project: (Alberta's Department
of Education)
- Learning
Outcomes for the Use of Information Technology Within Public School Programs: (Nova Scotia Department of Education)
- Technology-Based
Network Learning Canada (from McMaster
University)
- Learning Together With The Internet: Teacher and Student Resources (from William Egnatoff, Queen's University Facultyof Education)
- Educational Mailing Listservs for Teachers
from the San Fransisco Unified School District
- More Educational
Mailing Listservs from the Global Schoolhouse
Network
- Computer Supported
Intentional Learning Environments: CSILE (pronounced see'-sil)
from the Centre for Applied Cognitive Science at the Ontario Institute
for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT)
- Great
Teaching inthe One Computer Classroom: (from
Tom Snyder Productions)
- Professional
Development for Educators Using Information Technology (from Tom Snyder Productions)
- The Nueva School (Hillsborough, California)
- A
Superhighway through the Wasteland?" (by
Mitchell Kapor, former chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- Effective
Use of Information Technology in Adult Education
- Internationasl
Education WebZine
International Projects for Children:
Independent / Home Schooling Resources
Supporting Technologies and Media:
"What the mind can conceive and the heart
can believe, we can achieve!"
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