The Geneva Learning Foundation
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Ideas Engine: What is The Geneva Learning Foundation’s insights mechanism?
It’s a cliché to claim that data is the “new oil”, a resource to be mined. We collect it from the field, refine it with experts, and utilize it for decision-making. However, we rarely ask what this extractive model does to the workers and communities that provide the raw materials. This is a summary of…
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When learning meets emergency: The Geneva Learning Foundation’s approach to crisis response
This article is based on Zapnito CEO Charles Thiede’s interview of Reda Sadki on 16 September 2019. “I knew we had hit gold when a young doctor in Ghana was able to turn what he learned into action – and get results that improved the health outcome prospects of every pregnant woman in his district –…
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Digital health: The Geneva Learning Foundation to bring AI-driven training to health workers in 90 countries
GENEVA, 23 April 2019 – The Geneva Learning Foundation (GLF) is partnering with artificial intelligence (AI) learning pioneer Wildfire to pilot cutting edge learning technology with over 1,000 immunization professionals in 90 countries, many working at the district level. British startup Wildfire, an award-winning innovator, is helping the Swiss non-profit tackle a wicked problem: while…
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New learning for radiation emergency medical preparedness and assistance
My presentation for the Geneva Learning Foundation at the 15th meeting of the WHO Radiation Emergency Medical Preparedness and Assistance Network (REMPAN), World Health Organization, Geneva – 3-5 July 2017. Featured image: Participants of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation’s (RERF) Seventh Epidemiological Training Workshop for Biologists. The objective of the RERF is to conduct research and studies for peaceful…
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New learning and leadership for front-line community health workers facing danger
This presentation was prepared for the second global meeting of the Health Care in Danger (HCiD) project in Geneva, Switzerland (17–18 May 2017). In October 2016, over 700 pre-hospital emergency workers from 70 countries signed up for the #Ambulance! initiative to “share experience and document situations of violence”. This initiative was led by Norwegian Red…
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#Ambulance! Partnering with ICRC’s Health Care in Danger to scale peer learning for frontline pre-hospital emergency care staff and volunteers
On Wednesday, 17 May 2017, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) convened its Health Care in Danger Annual Meeting at the ICRC Headquarters in Geneva. During the afternoon session regarding training and education initiatives related to the Health Care in Danger (HCiD) project, Reda Sadki presented the outcomes of the #Ambulance! initiative. Sadki…
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Tower of Babel
What happens when a fledgling, start-up foundation convenes learning leaders from all over the world to explore digital learning? Over 800 participants from 103 countries have joined the Geneva Learning Foundation’s #DigitalScholar course developed in conjunction with the University of Illinois College of Education and Learning Strategies International. The course officially launches on Monday. Yet participants joining the online community…
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Beyond MOOCs: the democratization of digital learning
It is with some trepidation that I announce the Geneva Learning Foundation’s first open access digital course in partnership with the University of Illinois College of Education and Learning Strategies International. The mission of the brand-new Geneva Learning Foundation is to connect learning leaders to research, invent, and trial breakthrough approaches for new learning, talent and leadership as a way…
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