who we are

edmond gaible, ph.d., president
Ed works on technology implementations to support enhance learning in schools and school systems, grassroots health organizations and microenterprises. Ed's research interests include low-power and low-cost computing for village implementations, gauging the impact of community information centers (CICs) across a broad array of social and economic outcomes, and identifying best practices in technology use in formal and informal education systems. Across his work, Ed emphasizes participation by all stakeholders involved in learning processes, and promotes active learning tied to relevant contexts as a means of building usable knowledge and “higher-order thinking skills.”

Ed is currently working with the infoDev program (www.infodev.org) to develop a "critical topography" of ICT use in education in the Caribbean, and with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support their Global Libraries initiative.

For infoDev, Ed has also recently written, with Mary Burns of EDC, Using Technology to Train Teachers a guide to policymakers and donors. For the World Bank Institute, Ed also completed, with Sara Nadel, a large-scale program evaluation of the Uganda VSAT School-based Telecenters project, which remains in press.

In addition, Ed has led project evaluations in Uganda and Rwanda, as well as conducting a field-trial in the use of handheld PCs for collection of EFA data in the Gambia under the auspices of World Bank Institute.

Ed's work with Jiva Institute in the development of the Teledoc mobile village healthcare system was awarded the first WSIS World Summit prize for tele-medicine.

Other work has involved field-testing of resources for school-based community telecenters in Uganda and Zimbabwe (for the World Bank Institute and the World Links Organization), guiding university educators in Kazakhstan in the development of online educational resources, design of system-wide teacher-training programs for the Ministry of Education in Bhutan, as well as projects in Turkey, Bangladesh, Laos, and other countries. Clients have ranged from international development agencies such as UNDP and UNICEF to private- and civil-sector leaders such as OSI and Apple Computer to ground-breaking NGOs such as bridges.org. Ed currently serves on the board of directors of Jhai Foundation.