Hellow siobhan, Ed gragret, how are you all the service -learning will help a long way to help education reach its goal by 2015 , so am afalilitator of education using ICT asd a major tool , in my community, an dstate here in Nigeria, and also usingICT to empowre the youths . So am pleased with teh work keep it up. thanks On 7/11/05, Ed Gragert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Siobhan, > > Thanks for sharing this article about service-learning. We too feel that > service has an important role in bridging divides. We are partnering with > several other organizations to launch a program in August to create the > first non-governmental and multi-lateral year-long service program in the > field of education technology. We feel that there is significant expertise > around the world and that year-long international volunteers can be a > powerful way in which skills, knowledge and wisdom can be exchanged to help > bridge the divide. We are committed to south-south exchanges and to the > philosophy that there are unmet needs in every country, which can be met by > skilled persons--regardless of where they live. > > This program is the World Education Corps > (http://www.worldeducationcorps.org) > > In this pilot year, the first 10 volunteers, all with experience in > education technology, will depart for 10 days of orientation and training at > Oxford University in August and then fly to their host countries for a year > of service in ICT/education. The first exchanges will include someone from: > > Argentina going to Ghana > Uganda going to the USA > Pakistan going to Nigeria > Lebanon going to China > USA going to Jordan > Ghana going to Uganda > USA going to Argentina > Tanzania going to Pakistan > Uganda going to India > Uzbekistan going to Tanzania > > The program will expand in subsequent years to include significantly more > volunteers and countries. We hope that members of this list will share the > WEC volunteer applications with qualified persons. The first year all > placements are in education technology settings, but technology/health will > be another focus in year 2. > > Regards, > > Ed Gragert > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE > in the body of the message. >
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