The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Development — in their own words, ” a non-profit applied research institute committed to working with peoples throughout the [Indian] sub-continent to: 1) challenge and dismantle the existing monopoly system of factory-schooling in India; and 2) construct complex shared visions of Lifelong Societal Learning that lead to the creation of diverse open learning communities.”
TechKnowLogia is published bimonthly on the Internet in collaboration with UNESCO, OECD and GIIC. It provides policy makers, strategists, practitioners and technologists at the local, national and global levels with a strategic forum to share policies, strategies, experiences and tools in harnessing technologies for knowledge dissemination, effective learning, and efficient education services. It also reviews systematically the latest systems and products of technologies of today, and peeks into the world of tomorrow.
New Horizons for learning offers numerous articles, contacts and links for those interested in issues related to K-12 education.
World Education is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of the poor through economic and social development programs. We provide training and technical assistance in informal education for adults and children, with special emphasis on income generation, small enterprise development, literacy, education for the workplace, environmental education, reproductive health, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS education, and refugee orientation. Projects are designed to contribute to individual growth, as well as to community and national development.
Teachers Without Borders is a non-profit, non-denominational corporation/public foundation devoted to global educational change at the high-school level for an information age. We create an appropriate match between worldwide research on learning with effective, personalized educational solutions at the local level.
The OECD groups 29 member countries in an organisation that, most importantly, provides governments a setting in which to discuss, develop and perfect economic and social policy. They compare experiences, seek answers to common problems and work to co-ordinate domestic and international policies that increasingly in today’s globalised world must form a web of even practice across nations. Their exchanges may lead to agreements to act in a formal way – for example, by establishing legally-binding codes for free flow of capital and services, agreements to crack down on bribery or to end subsidies for shipbuilding. But more often, their discussion makes for better informed work within their own governments on the spectrum of public policy and clarifies the impact of national policies on the international community. And it offers a chance to reflect and exchange perspectives with other countries similar to their own.
