OUR FIRST ANNUAL – AROUND THE WORLD OF OPEN INTERNATIONAL EVENT A BIG SUCCESS
It proved to be an uplifting ending to 2022. On December 15 we brought together for the first time ever most of the OPEN teams across 15 countries. Right on time at 9 am Eastern everyone began pouring into the session.
People came in from the following countries - All across the USA🇺🇸, Kenya🇰🇪, Liberia🇱🇷, DR Congo🇨🇩, Malawi🇲🇼, Nigeria🇳🇬, Jamaica🇯🇲, Trinidad🇹🇹, China🇨🇳, Colombia🇨🇴, UK🇬🇧, The Dominican Republic🇩🇴, Haiti🇭🇹, Sweden🇸🇪, Ukraine🇺🇦!
OPEN announces strategic partnership with music technology innovators Elk, a Stockholm-based company.
Elk and OPEN will bring Elk’s “Live” remote “realtime” music collaboration technologies to OPEN schools around the world and to professional and aspiring musicians and songwriters. There is no, or barely discernible audio or video delay between Elk units up to 600 km apart. THIS is ground-breaking technology OPEN and its colleagues have been looking for for over 25 years since the Internet began to take off. Read more...
Bungoma, Kenya Leads the Way on OPEN’s Global Regenerative Agriculture Research Experiment
With the continued support of Bungoma County’s Ministry of Agriculture led by Mr. Chrisantus Mangoli and Mr. Maurice Emuria and OPEN’s Country Manager, Bonventure Masika, our three test bed sites have shown exceptional results in protecting against erosion, rapidly restoring soil health, while beginning to measure and compare carbon sequestration capabilities. The sites are – Mabanga Agriculture Training Centre, Machwele Vocational Agriculture Training Centre, and Kitinda Secondary School. Read more...
OPEN Announces its Strategic Partnership with GLAMOS
The Leading Remote Testing Tool for LoRaWAN Helium Networks
OPEN is thrilled to announce its strategic partnership with GLAMOS, creator of the most advanced network testing tool for our fast growing Helium LoRaWAN backbone networks. Our networks connect our 24/7 mission critical sensors for our clients in the agriculture sector, and soon related applications for security, forestry, and water management.
George Newman, Founder of OPEN, “With this indispensible tool, we can now finally remotely monitor network conditions and optimize its performance... read more
OPEN’s Global Education Programs Support the UN's ITU-D
Partners To Connect (P2C) Alliance
OPEN Strategic Partners
OPEN’s Pledge to Support the UN’s ITU-D P2C Alliance Validated By ITU-D
Over the last six months OPEN has participated in an advisory role in the P2C Alliance Working Group 3. OPEN’s work in education and education technology related to sustainable community development fits with all 4 pillars in connecting the last 2 plus billion people to the Internet and the resultant benefits of doing so. For OPEN specifically that is to deliver online education to the underserved everywhere.
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Testimonials From Special Needs Schools in Abuja, Nigeria Participants In Our Recent OPEN-RAK STEM Sensor Kit Workshop
A US Embassy of Nigeria funded projected by Dr Badewa Adejugbe and The Royal School for Educational Therapy Foundation (RSETF) with OPEN and STEM consultant teams. Read more testimonials...
The Timothy Dwight Elementary School - PS 33X
Alchemist Club In The South Bronx, NY Win First Place
Alchemist Club Studios - 5th Graders
Win First Prize in The District 10 Science Fair 2022
RAK and One Planet Education Network Promote IoT Learning and Development Through STEM Kit
When we envision making IoT easy for everyone, we do mean everyone. We want to involve every single person in the development of IoT worldwide and make IoT education available for students everywhere.
That is why we are proud to announce the successful launch of our OPEN-RAK Do-It-Yourself (DIY) STEM Lab Sensor WisBlock Kits for students and a data analytics education network with our partner, One Planet Education Network (OPEN), and with the help of Helium and Ubidots technology. Click here to read more...
PRODUCTS & SERVICES
OPEN's products and services include project-based learning program series, international distance learning events regularly linking students and scientists/experts, ESRI GIS digital mapping technologies, IoT sensor network STEM+ labs, game-based learning content, in-person and webinar professional development for teachers and techs, scientist and expert interview series, and IMCON International "mobile classroom" connectivity platform.
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Digitally connecting students, and students and experts across the globe
International Distance Learning
Currently sustainable community-infrastructure focused multi-year program series
Project-Based Learning Programs
Video interview series with leading scientists and experts who are authorities on the 21st century Global Challenge topics that OPEN's international education programs cover
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MISSION
At One Planet Education Network, our mission is to promote scientific literacy along with cross-cultural understanding, and to inspire a passion for lifelong learning. We not only want to prepare the global community of learners for the 21st-century workplace, but also to better prepare them to work together to effectively contend with the major challenges confronting our civilization.
