Education and Human Rights

This blog is about education, technology, social entrepreneurs, and international development.

Article 26 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights states:

"Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit."

The question is, in places around the world where teachers, teaching materials, and information are scarce, how do you provide quality education? And, if access to higher education is based on merit - children who, because of circumstance, did not have an opportunity to receive elementary education are left out. How can those children demonstrate "merit" if they did not receive elementary education in the first place?

For children growing up in poverty, education is the only way to improve their future opportunities. Technology and education go hand in hand since the internet provides access to information, knowledge, and distance learning resources.

According to Internet World Stats, only 1.13b people in a world population of 6.6b use the internet. The challenge is to get the remaining 5/6 of the world's population connected so that they too can take part in the global economy. World change starts with education, which technology can help facilitate.

This blog focuses on education, technology, social entrepreneurs, and development. Specifically, we explore the ways technology is being leveraged to facilitate and create educational and business opportunities in the United States, Latin America, Brasil, developing countries, and inner cities worldwide.