AcrossWorld Communications, Inc.is a Global Development Learning Network Partner
(www.gdln.org) of the World Bank Institute. AcrossWorld is planning to
offer a series of workshop/seminars/courses on open source including
global dialog on policy issues as part of the AcrossWorld University.
Global Development Learning Network reaches more than 70 developing
countries through high-quality full bandwidth videoconference which
have been further enriched by combining with online learning using
Moodle as the course management system.

"AcrossWorld is looking for people any where in the world with
knowledge and experience of open source to (a) help design the course
and (b) participate in teaching the course. Anil Srivastava, co-founder
and CEO of AcrossWorld, says that they can work out a way of bridging
the instructors from any part of the world to join in teaching the
course. AcrossWorld is putting together the resources which will
include a modest payment to lecturers. AcrossWorld University is an
exploration in global learning and knowledge sharing.

"AcrossWorld has been instrumental in promoting open source software in
developing countries resulting in several initiatives including infoDev
which has made open source as one of its flagship
initiative and infoDev's Open-source Software Toolkit is intended to
'help information technology decision-makers in developing countries
understand the dynamics associated with implementing open source
software solutions'."

Anil Srivastava

AcrossWorld Communications, Inc.

1601 Civic Center Drive

Santa Clara, California 95050-4109, USA

+1 408 519 6420 voice

+1 408 306 1119 mobile

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I'm not going to comment on why this is interesting, as I think it should be apparent from several different standpoints. But, I will say that it is amazing to me that the World Bank could be involved with something as subversive as FLOSS.

Willy Smith reporting from Costa Rica