Open Learning Exchange - A Global Network
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[Open Learning Exchange]
[A Global Network]
We started OLE because we realized
that there are roughly a billion children in the world
who are not getting their right to have at least a basic education
and so we began to create a network
of local people who are using open source content
using technology, to really make a difference
Open Learning Exchange Bolivia
Nepal, Rwanda, India, Dominican Republic
People from all over the world, from developing countries,
from poor countries with a common goal
Making sure that their children get a quality basic education by 2015
2015 has been picked up by the United Nations, by which time
all the children across the world achieve a basic education
It´s a short period of time and it´s a big task
We try to find local solutions,
Africa´s issues are not the Caribbean issues
We need national solutions, and that establishes
a sense of responsibility
Rwanda is a really good example, where we have
an OLE Center that is making a huge difference in that country
As you know, the genocide which killed hundreds of thousands of people
not that long ago, had an enormous impact upon that country
Today almost half the population is 18 years or younger
Those kids are going to be leading that country
and so our programme there is to help build a strong national digital library
using technology, using the internet, and bringing in material from South Africa
adapting that to Rwanda, all open source, all free
and available not only then in Rwanda, but any place else in the world
where that adapted material could be used
We have to cohabitate together
we have to remove all roots of the genocide
that was actually inculcated into the minds of people, because they were not educated
We are now doing this in Nepal, in India, in Rwanda
Ghana, Namibia, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Bolivia
and now in Mexico.
We are collaborating with each other
Sharing their ideas, their successes, and their failures
will enable them in fact to move very rapidly
We are a global community which is providing global solutions
and this is happening already
With the internet, with new technologies, and with the awareness on the part
of everyone that it is an urgent matter
for us to make sure that everyone at least has a basic literacy and numeracy
and an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of being a human being on this earth
When you see the eyes of a child who is finding learning as something interesting,
as something that he can do
he is going to have the tools to grow beyond the dreams
of everybody in his village
that is a good thing that we are all happy to support
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