African projects launched
Openworld has offered support to projects in Gabon, Senegal, and Somaliland for students and jobseekers to research market-based learning and sustainable development. A presentation on Gabon's "Green Free Zone" opportunity has been released. In Somaliland, teleworkers helping the new Somaliland-based Academy of Science, recipient of a 37 acre land grant, have also begun producing video clips on Internet-enabled job creation and affordable construction solutions. An entrepreneurial academy in Senegal is also preparing video clips, with microscholarship funding, on new learning-and-earning opportunities to promote school sustainability.
Seeds of Change Offer: Microvouchers for student projects
Openworld is offering 500 microvouchers in coming months to fund digital "work-study" projects by students at entrepreneurial schools for the poor to create video clips on opportunities for sustainability. The initiative is funded by recent grants from John C. Whitehead, Jack Pearce, and the Explorers Foundation. Explore the new Seeds of Change challenge offer and apply for the Seeds of Change resources. Initial video projects are being prepared by students at the Horizon Lanka Academy in Sri Lanka, as well as high school age students in North America.
"Assisting Entrepreneurial Schools" portal launched
In response to shortcomings in government schools, more than 1.5 million private schools for the poor are now operating in developing countries, according to Templeton Foundation and International Finance Corporation-supported research by James Tooley. Openworld has launched a new portal to provide learning entrepreneurs with practical information on sustainability strategies.
Below you'll find links on challenge offers of microscholarships and other resources for schools and neighborhood groups, examples of "Seeds of Change" work-study topics that can be researched by microscholarship recipients, and reports and books on emerging opportunities for self-help ventures in troubled areas.