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Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked by a Library of CultureHumans are relational beings with their modeled behavior as practical examples of cultural routines that they hear, see, read, and assemble on their own from communal pieces of information to answer the needs of their everyday lives (Bandura, & Jeffrey, 1973). Yet few researchers have looked at the differing synthesis of culture and generally assume that others share similar ideas/values that lead to particular events and worldviews (Lillard, p.5 1998). Informational and cultural contact zones can be created to support CLNs, universities, and individuals in a variety of roles to encourage their interactions so they might design, and challenge the fundamentals of these programs and seek to better cooperation amongst the public itself (Tremmel, 2000). By increasing communication and collaboration of educational systems throughout the community will begin to raise the standard of living for all people (Bohn, & Schmidt, 2008). This will begin to draw people out from the digital divide and increase the access of technology and information available to all people with the community. Utilizing CLNs to support and further education will allow an interconnected web of assessments, standards, and cooperative efforts that has the potential of increasing democracy by empowering people from their communities.
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Local and Community Driven
 Development : Moving to Scale in Theory and PracticeServices are failing poor urban and
 rural people in the developing world, and poverty remains
 concentrated in rural areas and urban slums. This state of
 affairs prevails despite prolonged efforts by many
 governments to improve rural and urban services and
 development programs. This book focuses on how communities
 and local governments can be empowered to contribute to
 their own development and, in the process, improve
 infrastructure, governance, services, and economic and
 social development, that is, ultimately, the broad range of
 activities for sustainable poverty reduction. Countries and
 their development partners have been trying to involve
 communities and local governments in their own development
 since the end of Second World War, when the first colonies
 gained independence in South Asia. Pioneers in both India
 and Bangladesh (then a part of Pakistan) developed a clear
 vision of how it will be done: local development should be
 planned and managed by local citizens, their communities,
 and their local governments within a clearly defined
 decentralized framework that devolves real power and
 resources to local governments and communities. Capacity
 support will be provided by technical institutions and
 sectors and nongovernmental institutions.
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Student Leadership Conference Report 2010This is the Student Leadership Conference Attendees Report from the retreat. This is the start of the I AM U-URI Unity in Difference group on campus.