Global Development Learning Network - GDLN

Updated 13 January 2011

The Global Development Learning Network is a growing partnership of more than 60 learning centers and public, private, and non-governmental organizations around the world using distance learning technologies and methods to enable interactive, cost-effective learning and knowledge-sharing for sustainable development and poverty reduction.

Through GDLN, individuals, groups, and organizations design and deliver courses, seminars, and other activities that cover the full range of development issues.

ADBI works closely with the network through the state-of-the-art Tokyo Development Learning Center* to explore and develop ways in which technology and distance learning initiatives can maximize the dissemination of development knowledge to developing member countries and beyond.

Our first activity was a Microfinance Pilot Training Program* in February 2005. The program used simultaneously three key e-learning technologies: CD-ROMs, web-based support and extension, and the GDLN. It reached over 100 regular participants in 7 countries, certified 10 local instructors, and received the highest rating among GDLN courses.

Based on this success, e-learning courses have been organized annually ever since.

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