International

From the first trip to Mali, West Africa as a 3rd year student at University of Toronto, Ken Reimer understood the importance of looking beyond our local western perspective. He also recognized the responsibility of those in the developed world toward our global neighbours.

Ken's background in developing learning solutions, and in leveraging the Internet, is one which allows him to make a difference is in the area of education and training. Skills development, training, and education are important tools for empowering the populations of developing countries. More so than ever, cost effective training programs can be delivered to large populations across huge geographical distances.

With LearnStream, Ken led projects to develop innovative learning solutions for a number of of United Nations agencies, including:

• UNHCR (Geneva) - supply chain management
• UN Staff College (Torino) - orientation for UN staff
• World Bank (Washington DC) - insurance governance/supervision
• WHO (Geneva) - "Health for All" strategy, budgeting and planning

Ken Reimer with Dr. Keshaw Singh, Dean of the Faculty of Distance Learning at KNUST (Kumasi, Ghana). The two met in Nairobi, Kenya at the eLearning Africa 2007 conference to discuss collaborative elearning projects.

A conference presentation on an earlier collaboration highlighted principles to apply when developing interactive learning objects.