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I received my
higher education at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in
history and pedagogics. I worked then in Geneva for seven years as
a teacher in secondary schools and received a tenure appointment.
In 1980 I moved to Nicaragua where I coordinated the SAH
programme (a Swiss trade unions - based NGO) and worked in several
adult education programmes in rural areas. I specialized in the
preparation of printed teaching materials for recently
alphabetized adults and I published on that subject in Spanish a
handbook as well as numerous pamphlets. From 1991 to 1995 I lived
in La Paz where I coordinated a SDC
programme (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation) aimed to
support Bolivian national NGOs. I was called in 1995 to Berne to
head the SDC division in charge of relations with NGOs. During my
stay in Switzerland, I followed through distance online education
an extensive programme of training on online teaching at the UCLA
(University of California). I also conducted a seminar on the role
of NGOs in international cooperation at the IUED
(Graduate Institute for Development Studies) in Geneva.
From
the early 1990ies on, I have been interested in the possible use
and impact of the new information and communication technologies
on adults training, on sustainable development and on citizen
movements, and in a users friendly approach to the new digital
media. I am an early sympathiser of the open source approach,
because I believe in collaborative work for creating common goods
as one of the ways to promote diversified and shared digital
ecosystems.
From 2000 to 2005 I have setup a SDC cooperation
programme in
Cuba.
Since
2006, I am back to Geneva with my family.
Since 2007, I am
working again with SDC on issues such as as training, ICT and
culture.
Olivier Berthoud
You can find some of my recent writings at: www.edinter.net/docs
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