From 26th to 30th November 2007 Over 2000 delegates from more than 90 countries and every continent attended the Online Educa Berlin http://www.online-educa.com making Online Educa Berlin the most comprehensive annual meeting place for e-learning and distance education professionals. BRAC University's Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) Coordinator and BBA Program Coordinator of BRAC Business School ALI SALMAN participated Online Educa Berline conference by the invitation of The World Bank and was present as a resource Speaker in discussion session titling "Emerging Markets in E-Learning" (coded ACC25) The session will be a dynamic debate between the Audience, the GDLN participants who will be positioned as learning experts from five emerging markets (East Asia & the Pacific, South Asia, Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe & Central Asia) with those from two companies with an interest in emerging markets and developing countries. The audience left the session with a list of lessons learned that may smooth their path in accessing the right audience, the right technologies and the right content in emerging markets.
GDLN Resource Speakers in Online Educa Berlin are as follows:
1. Charles Senkondo, Tanzania Institute of Finance Management, Tanzania
2. Dr. Milagrito Montenegro, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Peru
3. Ali Salman, BRAC University, Bangladesh
4. Dr. Pimrumpai Premsmit, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
5. Dr. Yao Kouassi, Centre d'Education a Distance, Ivory Coast