<div>Hello Fatima Lasay,</div><div><br></div><div>One proposal from ISOC India Chennai is submitted already under "development", to be amended, improved and modified for correctness over the next few days. </div>
<div><br></div><div>.................</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 12px; "><div>Development</div><div><br></div><div>Internet in Education and Curriculum Development and Sharing: Alexandria Everywhere</div>
<div><br></div><div>Even with an estimated 1.4 billion users connected, Internet is still a phenomenon in its nascent phase of evolution. Internet has fostered innovation and has caused all round progress to happen in an accelerated pace, but the thinking that Internet makes it possible to globally coordinate concrete developmental programs for an enhanced level of economic progress is yet to set in. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Education is one of the areas where Internet can cause tremendous change. Collaborative, participatory learning Models are evolving and classrooms around the world are experimentally connected. </div><div>
<br></div><div>A concrete, globally adaptable, CO-ORDINATED program could bridge the gap between quality of education between a classroom in a well funded school in a developed country and one in an inadequately funded school in a developing or under-developed country. This workshop (panel and public participation) would examine models by which resources could be shared across Internet and create a rough, actionable framework for educational institutions to connect by commercial and non-commercial models and examine ways of making it possible to expand the reach of well developed curriculum (in terms of content, teaching methods and technology) reach remote corners on a co-ordinated, global scale.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Workshop proposed on behalf of: ISOC India Chennai</div><div><br></div><div>How this workshop will be organized: We would approach an eminent educational institution / academic center to be the co-organizers. The lead participants of this workshop are to have the diversity of academia from developed and developing countries, policy planners, e-curriculum experts, students from developed and developing countries and futuristic thinkers. The choosen topic would also further IGF's efforts to improve the diversity of participation by attracting participation / involving the student community from around the world, in the preparatory phase, during IGF and in follow up collaboration.</div>
<div>.....................</div></span></div><div><br></div><div>In line with a chapter program with a BALANCED approach towards Online Safety for Children, we may file a proposal for a workshop on the topic of "Orienting Children Online" with care to give shape to the workshop as a debate to discuss child safety aspects without sending negative signals.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Both these workshop are to draw participation from experts, likely to be from beyond the ISOC membership pool, but with help from ISOC Chapters by way of pointers.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Sivasubramanian Muthusamy<div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Fatima Lasay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fats@isoc.ph">fats@isoc.ph</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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