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Dominican Teachers Trained in Quality Teaching
A total of 278 Dominican teachers and professors will be awarded with a diploma for the satisfactory completion of an Organization of the American States (Educational Portal of the Americas) course on line sponsored by Global Foundation for Democracy and Development, GFDD, and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo, FUNGLODE in collaboration with the ministries of Basic and Higher Education, Science and Technology.

More than 200 Teachers Trained in Introductory Computer Usage
“Partners in Learning”, a Microsoft program supported by FUNGLODE/GFDD has been conducting a series of trainings to more than 200 teachers of the Ministry of Education (SEE for its Spanish initials) in order to qualify them to effectively use technology in schools.

XXIII Model General Assembly of the OAS
The Organization of American States (OAS), the Ministry of Higher Education, (SEESCyT for its acronym in Spanish), the United Nations Association of the Dominican Republic (ANURD,) Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE,) and Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) launched the “XXIII Model of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States for Universities (MOEA)”.

FUNGLODE Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary
A gala dinner with almost 1,000 people marked the celebration of the Fifth Anniversary of Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo, FUNGLODE that took place at Hotel Jaragua in Santo Domingo.

Launch of Dominicanaonline.org
Dominicanaonline.org, the new portal of the Dominican Republic , was launched in Santo Domingo at the Vth anniversary celebration of Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo, FUNGLODE.

Regulation and Legislation of Distance Education: The Brazilian Experience
The Minister of Higher Education, Ms. Ligia Amado Melo, opened a three day seminar on “Regulation and Legislation of Distance Education: The Brazilian Experience,” led by two officials of the Brazilian Ministry of Education, Professor Luciane Carneiro, Coordinator for Education, and Dr. Helio Chaves Filho, Director for Policy on Distance Education.

Peer Coaching: Technological Tools to Improve Learning
Thirty teachers from Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic participated in the training workshop opened October 31 that went on until November 4, at Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo, FUNGLODE.

Sir George A. O. Alleyne keynote speaker at the Ninth OAS Lecture Series of the Americas
“Health is instrumental in its own right in contributing to wealth and other aspects of human development,” confirmed the Barbadian-born Dr. George A. O. Alleyne, head of PAHO from 1995 to 2003 and currently Chancellor of the University of the West Indies in his lecture on “Health for Development” at the Ninth Conference of the Lecture Series of the Americas October 11, 2005.

The United Nations Association of the Dominican Republic will organize Model OAS
President Leonel Fernandez and OAS Secretary General, Jose Miguel Insulza, signed an agreement of cooperation to conduct the XXIII model of the OAS General Assembly with universities and colleges.

President Fernandez Addressed the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States
President of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernandez visited the Organization of American States during his last visit to the United States. President Fernandez talked about Latin America’s transitions to democracy and the region’s challenges and opportunities to strengthen their democratic institutions, increase the governments’ transparency…