Forum on Education in the Information Age
Cartagena, Colombia, 9-11 July 1997

Peter Knight assisted the Inter-American Development Bank in the preparation and delivery of this Forum, organized jointly with the Global Information Infrastructure Commission and hosted by the Universidad de los Andes. The Forum brought together Ministers of Education from Latin America and the Caribbean, their key advisors, international experts, and representatives of education and training institutions, private and public providers of telematics services in support of education and training, and NGOs active in education and training. It is part of the Informatics 2000 Initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Peter Knight prepared a paper, The Half-Life of Knowledge and Structural Reform of the Education Sector for the Global Knowledge-Based Economy, for the Forum, a version of which was published by the Inter-American Development Bank in 1998.

Following the Forum, Universidad de los Andes established a website containing papers presented at the Forum and  information on post Forum activities including Workgroups and Discussion Groups preparing input for a major Informatics 2000 meeting held September 8-9 at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington.

Fernando Restrepo, Chairman of the board of RTI (Colombian TV firm), and member of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC) opens the Forum.

Stephen A. Quick, Manager of the Strategic Planning and Operational Policy Department  of the Inter-American Development Bank, addresses  the Forum.

Linda Harasim, CEO TeleLearning Research Network of Canada, fields a question in a Forum session.

Professor Fred Litto the School of the Future at the University of São Paulo addresses the Forum.

John Gage, founder and scientific director of Sun Microsystems addresses the Forum as RTI TV cameras capture the action.

W. Bowman Cutter, Chairman of the GIIC and Managing Director of E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co addresses the closing session of the Forum.

[e-Government in Brazil] [e-Learning in Brazil] [Brazil CAE] [Brazil PPPs]

[African Cultural Heritage] [Consultancy]