Partnerships

The Network on Education and Telematics (RIF-ET) has played a predominant role in COLAM’s strategic development and consolidation. This Network has technically and conceptually supported other networks that created their training programs based on the use of EaD/TIC, and has been a key element in the strengthening of strategic partnerships, especially with the OAS (INEAM and Portal), VirtualEduca, and the Consortium Distance Education Network (CREAD).  In addition, COLAM’s notable contribution was specifically emphasized in the Declaration of Scarborough, within the framework of the Fourth Conference of Ministers of Education, in August 2005. 

Here is a summary of some of the alliances established and the results obtained.

Portal of the Americas

• Five courses in “Electronic Government” with a total of 409 participants
  • Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador
  • Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico
  • Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
  • Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
  • Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, Brazil
• Course in “Quality of Basic Education,” 280 participants
• Course in “Economy and Environmental Management,” 24 participants

VirtualEduca

• Founding member
• Participation in the 2004 Annual Conference
• Participation and collaboration in the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Annual Conferences
• Joint offering of the Seminars “Information Technologies Applied to Virtual Education” (VirtualEduca 2004, 35 participants) and “Technology, a Facilitator for Educational Development” (VirtualEduca 2005, 54 participants)

CREAD

• Contribution to launching the project “Virtual Centre for the Development of Quality Standards for Distance Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean,” financed by the IDB, and associate member in the creation of the “Inter-American Certification Agency for Distance Education Systems” with the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (Ecuador).

PAHO

• Development, within the framework of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)’s program “Women, Health and Development,” of the online training pilot course “Integral Attention to Domestic and Sexual Violence Against Women” within the structure of the work carried out by RIF – Women and Development (2004), 42 participants.