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Funglode Signs an Agreement with the Organization
of American States (OAS) to Strengthen Education by Using
Information Technologies
The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (FUNGLODE)
signed an agreement with the Organization of American
States, through the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation
and Development, on the afternoon of January 28. The picture
captures the moment when FUNGLODE's president, Leonel
Fernández, shakes hands with Dr. Carlos Paldao,
Director of the Department of Information Technology and
Grants of the IACD. |
The president-founder of the Global Foundation
for Democracy and Development (FUNGLODE), signed an agreement
with one of agencies of the Organization of American States
to strengthen education overall.
Multimedia teaching and learning modalities
through the use of information technologies breakthroughs
will be employed to accomplish such goal.
The agreement's execution took place recently
in Washington, D.C. between Leonel Fernández, FUNGLODE's
president, and Mr. L. Ronald Scheman, Director General of
the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development,
the principal agency of the OAS for technical cooperation
and training.
On the other hand, in Santo Domingo, Leonel
Fernández and Carlos Paldao, director of the IACD formalized
the agreement.
IACD is an agency for the promotion, coordination,
administration, and facilitation of the devising and execution
of projects, programs, and developmental activities within
the framework of the Strategic Plan for the Joint and Several
Cooperation of the Inter-American Council for the Integral
Development.
One of the entity's goals is "to accelerate
its development through the application of cooperation and
technical training, with special emphasis on the cooperation
between Latin American and Caribbean nations."
The agreement establishes that Education
is the key to the strengthening of democratic institutions,
promotion of human potential development, equality, and understanding
between nations, which positively influences in the economic
growth and the reduction of poverty.
In order to accomplish such goals, it is
essential to consolidate a quality education, and make it
available to all.
Further, the IACD will collaborate with
FUNGLODE, in the following:
- Design and development of socio-educational, economic,
and cultural initiatives intended to promote access to knowledge
and learning through the use of multimedia educational resources.
- Provide any advice requested by FUNGLODE on socio-educational,
economic or cultural issues in the member States of the
OAS regarding programs approved by the Inter-American Council
for the Integral Development and the OAS General Assembly.
- Make available to FUNGLODE, the Education Portal of the
Americas and other information technology tools that may
contribute to the accomplishment of such objectives, particularly
those related to human resources training.
- Inform FUNGLODE of IACD programs underway in areas of
common interests, particularly those regarding the provision
of access to the information, and consider the participation
of FUNGLODE's in such programs.
- Invite FUNGLODE's representatives to IACD technical meetings,
whenever permissible, any time aspects related to information
technologies, socio-educational, economic and cultural issues
will be discussed, or any time FUNGLODE manifests a special
interest in any such meetings.
- Consider any observations made in writing by FUNGLODE
on issues of common interests.
 On
its part, FUNGLODE, among others, shall:
- Assist in socio-educational, economic, and cultural initiatives
intended to promote access to knowledge through multimedia
modalities, by using state-of-the art information technologies
advances, particularly aimed at low-income population and
remote communities in the Americas. Such initiatives might
be channeled, among others, through the Educational Portal
of the Americas, IACD Website; IACD Fellowship system; a
specialized library network of the Americas; an informative
service of cooperation services offer and demand in the
Hemisphere; and other mutually agreed projects.
- Give advice and academic support to IACD in general education
matters, and particularly for the application to integral
programs for the socio-educational development through the
use of information technologies.
- Recommend to IACD educational programs, plans, or activities
that may contribute to the modernization of the educational
systems in the hemisphere, including other matters within
the scope of this Agreement.
- Send IACD a copy of the applicable Dominican Republic
laws and policies governing FUNGLODE's operations closely
linked to the parties' common objectives, as a result of
the implementation of this agreement, and any subsequent
agreement with the parties, etc.
SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, JANUARY 28, 2003.
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