Global Forum on Migration and Development
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Date Shared: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 15:15
Title: 

Community Plazas

Countries and areas: 
Mexico, United States
Partner(s): 
National Government of Mexico
Thematic Area: 
Civil society and the private sector, Strategies for minimizing costs/maximizing human development
Tags: 
Regional Consultative Processes and International Regional Fora, Policy Coherence, Migration and Education, Capacity Building, Diaspora Empowerment and Engagement
Summary: 

Community Plaza is a project which incorporates the use of new information and communication technologies applied to education and formation targeting Mexicans residing in the USA. This is a result of joined efforts by several institutions to promote diversified educational actions.

This program falls under the Mexico-United States Cooperation Initiative on Education that has established programs in the US to facilitate access to education for Mexican migrants and increase their potential to adapt locally.

The objectives of the Community Plaza abroad are:

  • To extend the opportunities of education, information and communication.
  • To get that every person leads their own learning process, under the principle: learn to learn.
  • Recognize education as a life long process.
  • Respond to the persons’ needs, interests and study pace.
  • Integrate knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to learn to use the computer, Internet, interactive compact discs as educational resources. 
  • Facilitate the integration with virtual communities; groups of people and organizations are supported by their acquired knowledge.
  • To make possible the participation of the community to provide, generate and share information and knowledge, to create their own web pages, educational and formation programs according to their needs.
  • To pass and certify different educational modules.
  • To generate educational and formation actions as required by the community.

 

GFMD Source: 

GFMD 2010 - Roundtable 2.1 "Reducing the costs of migration and maximizing human development"

Link: 

For more infomration (in Spanish):

  •  http://www.conevyt.org.mx/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=458&Itemid=904
  • Info-sheet: 
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Source (retrieved on 04/13/2026 - 06:46): https://www.gfmd.org/pfp/ppd/454