Organisations

• The Asia-Europe Classroom (AEC)
  Contact address: Director, People-to-People Exchange
  Asia-Europe Foundation
  No. 1 Nassim Hill
  Singapore 258466
  Tel: +65-68384 711 / 716
  Fax: +65-67324 371
  Email: info@aec.asef.org
  Country: Singapore
  Contact person: Yvonne Cheng
  ICT-related scope: The objectives of the AEC are to encourage the advancement of education through the use of ICT, to offer exciting means of collaboration between high schools in Asia and Europe, to facilitate an interactive platform offering innovative and beneficial online learning and projects between schools in Asia and Europe.
  URL: http://www.aec.asef.org/index_flash.html
  
  
  The Coca-Cola Company (Coca-Cola)
  Contact address: The Coca-Cola Company
  P.O. Box 1734
  Atlanta, GA, USA 30301
  Country: Asia and the Pacific
  ICT-related scope: In the pan-Asian program Coca-Cola are partnering with governments, multilateral organizations, NGOs and educators to help benefit and empower a new generation of teachers and students through the innovative, fun and locally relevant use of ICT. The goal is to help communities throughout the region bridge the growing digital divide.
  URL: http://www2.coca-cola.com/citizenship/education_asia_digital_divid.html
  
  COMP@CT
  Contact: Pentti Pirhonen, pentti.pirhonen@jamsa.fi
  ICT-related scope: COMP@CT can be defined as a metanetwork, offering ICT tools and expertise, which bring effective support to distributed and distant collaboration. The main aim of COMP@CT is to help Comenius schools to make better use of ICT in their project work. The main roles of the network are: a) Providing access to advice, support and training for teachers at all levels and educational institutions involving in Comenius projects. b) Creating a virtual base for teachers to share experiences and ideas, and to raise their awareness on ICT and promote innovation. Covers schools in Europe.
  
  CoSN - The Consortium for School Networking
  Consortium for School Networking
  1710 Rhode Island Ave., NW
  Suite 900
  Washington, DC 20036-3007
  202/861-CoSN (2676)
  866/267-8747 (Toll Free)
  202/861-0888 (Fax)
  membership@cosn.org
  Contact: James Bosco, Bosco@wmich.edu
  ICT-related scope: The Consortium for School Networking is a national NGO based in Washington D.C. The mission of CoSN is to advance the K-12 education community’s capacity to effectively use technology to improve learning through advocacy, policy and leadership development. Members represent school districts, state and local education agencies, nonprofits, and corporations.
  Leadership Development: CoSN engages in programmes and activities that improve the capabilities of school leaders at the national, state and local levels to ensure that information technology has a direct and positive impact on student learning.
  Advocacy: CoSN maintains a strong and effective voice in policy formation and implementation at the federal level to ensure that law and policy at the federal level serve the interests of all students in their schools Coalition Building: CoSN actively fosters partnerships and collaborative efforts with other organizations, government agencies and the private sector to improve access, equity and professional development around the use of technology in schools.
  Emerging Technology: As new technologies are developed and made available to schools and educators, leaders need information and tools on how to create the best learning environments for their students and teachers. CoSN stays on top of emerging technology trends and provides the framework to help school leaders ask important questions and evaluate the options.

• Curriculum Corporation of Australia
  Contact address: P.O. Box 177
  Carlton South
  Victoria 3053
  Australia
  Telephone: +61 3 9207 9600
  Facsimile: +61 3 9639 1616
  E-mail: Bruce.Wilson@curriculum.edu.au
  Country: Australia
  Contact person: Bruce Wilson, Director
  ICT-related scope: Curriculum Corporation works in the education sector developing products and services to help schools improve student learning. It is the key national organisation providing curriculum support to schools and producing and disseminating high quality educational products and services, including books, videos, magazines, multimedia, online services and professional development. Moreover, the Corporation markets and distributes resources developed by some State and Territory school systems and is managing and partnering projects with both national and international organisations.
  URL: http://www.curriculum.edu.au/
  
  EdNA Online
  Contact address: education.au limited
  178 Fullarton Road
  Dulwich SA 5065
  AUSTRALIA
  General Enquiries - webdesk@edna.edu.au
  News Submissions - news-editor@edna.edu.au
  Ph: +61 8 8334 3210
  Fax: +61 8 8334 3211
  Country: Australia
  Contact person: webdesk@edna.edu.au
  ICT-related scope: EdNA Online is a service that aims to support and promote the benefits of the Internet for learning, education and training in Australia. It is organised around Australian curriculum, its tools are free to Australian educators, and it is funded by the bodies responsible for education provision in Australia - all Australian governments.
  URL: http://www.edna.edu.au/index.html
  
  

• Environment Online
  Contact address: Eno Primary School,
  Alapappilantie 6,
  81200 ENO,
  FINLAND.
  phone: +358 13 762504
  fax: +358 13 762 017
  e-mail: vanhanen@cc.joensuu.fi
  Country: Global
  Contact person: Mika Vanhanen
  ICT-related scope: Environment Online (ENO) is a global virtual school network promoting environmental awareness. Schools from 51 countries around the world participate by providing information and analysis on local environmental issues. Goals of the project include students learning to cooperate in the web community, developing stronger environmental themes in education and learning new ICT skills.
  URL: http://eno.joensuu.fi/
  
  European Schoolnet
  Contact: Brigitte Parry, Brigitte.parry@eun.org
  ICT-related scope: European Schoolnet (www.eun.org) is a unique international partnership of 26 Ministries of Education developing learning for schools, teachers and pupils across Europe and beyond. It provides insight into the use of ICT (information and communications technology) in Europe for policy-makers and education professionals. This goal is achieved through communication and information exchange at all levels of school education using innovative technologies, and by acting as a gateway to national and regional school networks.
  
  
  Friendship Through Education Consortium
  Contact address: Friendship Through Education Consortium
  e-mail: friendship@us.iearn.org
  Tel: 212/870-2693
  Fax: 212/870-2672
  Country: Global
  Contact person: friendship@us.iearn.org
  ICT-related scope: The Friendship Through Education Consortium creates opportunities that facilitate online and offline interactions between the youth of the world, inside and outside of classrooms, with the aim of building a culture of peace in which the dignity and rights of all human beings are respected. They provide information on how students can contact other students through letters, email, art, collaborative projects and exchanges to foster mutual respect and greater understanding of cultural differences.
  URL: http://friendshipthrougheducation.org/
  
  GERMANY - Schulen ans Netz
  Contact: Kerstin Ciba, ciba@schulen-ans-netz.de
  Contact person:Schulen ans Netz is a voluntary, non-profit organisation whose goal is to firmly anchor new media and the Internet in everyday teaching. For teachers and school children alike, mouse and monitor are to become as familiar in the classroom as blackboard and chalk. Against the backdrop of lifelong learning, the organisation aims to foster lasting change in school education. Schulen ans Netz e.V. was founded in 1996 by the Ministry for Education and Deutsche Telekom AG. The initial goal was to connect 10.000 schools throughout Germany to the Internet within three years. With practically all 34.000 schools now connected to the Internet, Schulen ans Netz has completed its mission in terms of technology. This is of course a milestone in its own right. But along-side the technical aspects of its work, the organisation’s ongoing activities are increasingly focused on content: shaping teaching practice with the help of new media is now taking over as the main focus of our work.
  
  Goa Computers for Schools Project
  Contact address: Mario Mascarenhas
  Phone: 91(832)409999
  email: elinks@goatelecom.com
  Country: India
  Contact person: Mario Mascarenhas
  ICT-related scope: The Goa Computers for Schools Project is a fully volunteer driven project which is attempting to improve the levels of computer literacy and computer access to students in Goa, and training teachers to use them to teach effectively.
  URL: http://www.goacom.com/community/schools/
  
  iEARN
  Contact person: Bob Hofman, hofman@ict-edu.nl
  ICT-related scope: iEARN is a non-profit (501-c-3) organization made up over 15,000 schools in100+ countries, over 1.000.000 students, that empowers teachers and young people (K-12) to work together online through a global communications network. Since 1988, iEARN has pioneered on-line schools linkages to enable students to engage in meaningful educational projects with peers around the corner and throughout the world. iEARN is: - a safe and structured environment in which youth can communicate - a community of teachers and learners - a known audience for writing and reading with a purpose - an inclusive and culturally diverse community After joining, teachers and students enter on-line forum spaces to meet other participants and get involved in ongoing projects, initiated by teachers and students throughout the world. In addition to meeting a specific curriculum need, every project proposed by teachers and students in iEARN, has to answer the question: how will this project effect the quality of live on the planet? That vision and purpose is the glue that holds iEARN together. Through participation in iEARN projects students develop the habit of getting involved in community issues, thus becoming better equipped for future civic participation.

• Information and Communication Technologies in Schools Taskforce
  Contact address: The Secretary, MCEETYA
  PO Box 202, Carlton South Vic 3053 Australia
  Tel: (03) 9639 0588 (International: +61 3 9639 0588)
  Fax: (03) 9639 1790 (International: +61 3 9639 1790)
  E-mail: mceetya@curriculum.edu.au
  Country: Australia
  Contact person: Chair, Dr Martyn Forrest
  ICT-related scope: This Taskforce will work with the Australian ICT in Education Committee (AICTEC) on issues relating to information and communication technologies (ICT) in teaching and learning and will provide advice to the education.au limited Board regarding strategic directions for EdNA Online and associated developments.
  URL: http://www.curriculum.edu.au/mceetya/taskfrce/task223.htm
  
  The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
  Contact address: ISTE Customer Service
  480 Charnelton Street
  Eugene
  OR 97401-2626 USA.
  Phone: 541.302.3777 (International)
  Fax: 541.302.3778
  e-mail: iste@iste.org
  Country: Global
  Contact person:
  ICT-related scope: ISTE is a nonprofit professional organisation with a worldwide membership of leaders and potential leaders in educational technology. They seek to promote appropriate uses of information technology to support and improve learning, teaching, and administration in K–12 and teacher education, providing members with information, networking opportunities, and guidance in incorporating computers and other new technologies into their schools.
  URL: http://www.iste.org/
  
  JAPAN - World School Network (WSN)
  Contact person: Ohmae Jun-ichi, ohmae@wschool.net
  "World School Network (WSN)", has been connecting schools, classrooms, community groups and families with environmental educational programmes that utilize the Internet, video conferencing, mail and direct communications since 1994. Originally World School was founded in the USA for an adventure education project to cross the Arctic Ocean in order to send daily reports from expedition members to children in the world. Not only expedition reports but also activity reports from different participants started to be exchanged. Food, wildlife, trash, interest of children spread out and many types of joint learning projects have been created very actively. Among them, joint research on food and trash are very popular and energetic. Another expedition was held in small subsistent islands in Micronesia from 1996 to 1998, and a walking trip over 4,000 km in Japan looking for wisdom for harmonious life with nature followed from 1999 to 2001.The Tokyo office became the head office for WSN activities in 1999. Currently there are more than 30 groups participated in Japan and 35 groups from Israel, Palestine, India, Hong Kong, France, US, and other areas in the world. The total number of children involved in WSN is estimated at around 1,500.
  
  

• The Le@rning Federation
  Contact address: The Le@rning Federation
  Schools Online Curriculum Content Initiative
  Joint Venture Office
  Level 5
  Casselden Place
  2 Lonsdale St
  Melbourne
  PO Box 177
  Carlton South 3053
  Phone: +61 3 9657 9712
  Fax: +61 3 9662 9572
  Email: info@thelearningfederation.edu.au
  Country: Australia
  Contact person: info@thelearningfederation.edu.au
  ICT-related scope: The Le@rning Federation is an initiative of State and Federal governments of Australia and New Zealand, aiming to develop online interactive curriculum content, specifically for Australian and New Zealand schools. The Initiative will support teachers in enhancing student learning, while developing systems to allow the input and delivery of high quality curriculum online by a range of experts. The systems will also facilitate the adaptation of content to suit the particular needs of teachers and students. The Le@rning Federation website includes information about the project, key documents and resources, forums and other specialised services.
  URL: http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/tlf/
  
  

• Marcopolo-education.org
  Contact: http://www.marcopolo-education.org/contact_us.aspx?page_name=/home.aspx
  ICT-related scope: MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom is a consortium of premier national education organisations, state education agencies and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional development to teachers and students throughout the United States.
  
  Mongolian Information Development ASsociation (MIDAS)
  Contact address: Mongolian Information Development ASsociation,
  4st floor, room 423, Baga Toiruu-49,
  Center for Scientific & Technological Information,
  Ulaanbaatar-46, Mongolia
  Tel: (976-11)-329902
  Fax: (976-11)-329902
  E-mail: secretary@ict.mn
  Country: Mongolia
  Contact person: Executive Director: S. Enkhjargal
  ICT-related scope: The vision of the MIDAS NGO is to create an information-based society in Mongolia that will improved the quality of life of citizens and intensified all economic sectors of the country by developing Information and Communications Technology sector as a one of the competitive sector.
  URL: http://ict.mn/midas/
  
  Pan Asia Networking (PAN)
  Contact address: IDRC, Southeast and East Asia Regional Office.
  Tanglin P O Box 101.
  Singapore 912404
  Tel: 65-235-1344
  Fax: 65-235-1849
  Country: Asia and the Pacific
  Contact person: Maria Ng Lee-Hoon, Senior Regional Program Officer, MNg@idrc.org.sg - Stephen J. McGurk, Ph.D. Regional Director, smcgurk@idrc.org.sg
  ICT-related scope: PAN is an initiative of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and PanAsias aim is to promote electronic networking in Asia, the use of ICT, the development and sharing of information resources and the research and development of Internet systems, technologies and policies.
  URL: http://www.panasia.org.sg/index.htm
  
  Schools Online
  Contact address: Schools Online
  1735 North First Street, Suite 312
  San Jose, California 95112
  USA
  Tel: +1.408.501.0770
  Fax: +1.408.501.0771
  Country: Global
  ICT-related scope: Schools Online is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to help students gain access and use the communication and information resources of the Internet for learning and cross-cultural dialogue. They accomplish this by providing appropriate technology and Internet access, facilitating teacher professional development, cultivating online collaborative projects, developing locally-driven and sustainable Internet Learning Centres and sharing knowledge and experience gained.
  URL: http://www.schoolsonline.org/
  
  TakingITGlobal
  Contact address: 42 Charles Street East, 5th Floor
  Toronto, Ontario
  M4Y 1T4
  Canada
  e-mail: info@takingitglobal.org
  tel: (416) 928-3362 x4225
  Country: Global
  Contact person: info@takingitglobal.org
  ICT-related scope: TakingITGlobal (TIG) is an international organisation, led by youth, bringing together more than 7000 young people in over 190 countries within international networks to collaborate on projects addressing global problems and creating positive change. On their excellent website you will find news, information on events, organisations, scholarships, projects and initiatives, discussion on topical issues, personal updates, a global gallery, and member profiles, together forming a comprehensive knowledge resource.
  URL: http://www.takingitglobal.org/home.html?RegionID=0&tag=hd

• UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE)
  Contact address: Postal address:
  8 Kedrova St. (Bldg. 3),
  117292 Moscow
  Russian Federation
  Tel.: +7 095 129-29-90
  Fax: +7 095 129-12-25
  E-mail: info@iite.ru, Azat.Khannanov@iite.ru
  Country: Russia
  Contact person: Vladimir Kinelev, Director
  ICT-related scope: The Institute acts as an international clearing house for the application of ICTs in education through the establishment of a network of national focal points for exchange of information and experience; contributes to the formulation of national policies and guidelines concerning the application of ICTs in education; and organizes sub-regional workshops and other training activities including the preparation and testing of training modules.
  URL: http://www.iite.ru/
  
  UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education
  Contact address: UNESCO Bangkok, 920 Sukhumvit Rd., Bangkok 10110, Thailand
  TEL. 66-2-391-0577, FAX. 66-2-391-0866
  Country: Asia-Pacific
  Contact person: ictinfo@unescobkk.org
  ICT-related scope: In order to reach the target audiences and assist countries in planning and implementing the introduction of ICTs in education, the Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education implemented the Asia-Pacific programme on ICT in education financed through Japanese Funds-in-Trust. This Asia-Pacific programme on the use of ICTs in education is based on the premise that the innovative and appropriate use of ICT can both help reach those excluded from learning and improve the quality of learning for all.
  URL: http://www.unescobkk.org/ and http://www.unesco.org/bangkok/education/ict/
  
  World Computer Exchange, Inc.
  Contact address: Headquarters: 936 Nantasket Ave., Hull, Massachusetts 02045 USA. Tel: + 781-925-3078 -FAX: +509-752-9186
  Timothy Anderson, President. TAnderson@WorldComputerExchange.org
  Country: Global
  Contact person: Sirinya Tabsombat, Implementation Team Leader, 01-702-1303. Stabsombat@WorldComputerExchange.org
  ICT-related scope: WCE is dedicated to helping the worlds poorest youth bridge the disturbing global divides in information, technology and understanding. WCE does this by keeping donated PCs, Macs, and Laptops out of landfills and giving them new life connecting youth to the Internet in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. WCE has representatives gathering computers, volunteers, and sister-schools in seven cities: Bangkok: Brett Renfrew, WCE Representative & Programme Officer, 09-897-0094. BRenfrew@WorldComputerExchange.org
  URL: http://www.worldcomputerexchange.org/

• World Links for Development
  Contact address: WorLD (World Links for Development).World Bank Institute
  1818 H Street, NW
  Washington, DC 20433 USA. tel (+1) 202-473-3660. fax (+1) 202-676-0961.
  Contact WorLD on-line: http://www.worldbank.org/worldlinks/english/html/con-em.html
  Country: Global
  Contact person: Michael Trucano - Director of Technology, Regional Coordinator for Asia
  ICT-related scope: The World Links for Development (WorLD) program provides a variety of services in developing countries related to the use of the Internet and communication technologies in education and for community and youth development. Their activities include providing connectivity to schools, e-learning initiatives and setting up school-based telecentres.
  URL: http://www.worldbank.org/worldlinks/index.html