UNESCO
The Open Training Platform (OTP) offers development stakeholders to join a common knowledge sharing effort, making training and capacity-building resources worldwide openly available for anyone to be used and localized, at the service of local communities and specialized communities for development.
Launched March 2007, this collaborative knowledge hub for training and capacity-building resources gives community workers, trainers and learners in particular in developing countries, access to educational materials that focus on issues inhibiting local development and livelihood improvement. A few of the 21 domains covered are adult literacy, water, agriculture and environment, community development, IT, micro entrepreneurship, health, HIV AIDS, food and sanitation, gender issues, etc.
The OTP content is free and in many cases open so that any learner and trainer can access relevant resources needed to local development and poverty reduction. It is one of UNESCO’s contributions to the implementation of the Action Plan of the World Summit on Information Society, particularly its parts related to capacity building.
A growing number of members (600 as on July 2007 such as project managers and trainers from all UN agencies, NGO, associations, foundations, Governments, private companies) are feeding this platform, sharing their training resources (1000 plus 40 every week) and contribute to this unprecedented open educational movement for development.
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