We argue today that universities should do more to tackle the single most important development challenge for most poor countries, which is to improve rural prosperity.

A video presented at the First UNESCO Mobile Learning Week (12-16 December 2011), held in Paris, France by Sir John Daniel, Commonwealth of Learning. Duration: 3:25 // Resource contains link to video as well as a transcript ...

While microfinance was an important breakthrough it is, as the name implies, concerned with small loans. It is a start, but only a start, to a process that allows rural people access to credit to implement their ambitions ...

Slides from presentation at the Fourth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open and Distance Learning (PCF4), in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, 3 November 2006. Presented by Sugata Mitra.

In the next 20 minutes or so that I have, if you permit and indulge me, I wish to reflect with you, from an educational perspective, on: i. where our rural and marginalized populations find themselves in a world that is ...