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Welcome to Hope Cybrary
Please feel free to look around and visit our Elementary School Cybraries and see our Hopefuls in action.
We've posted photos and videos, and we even have live webcam feeds available, so you can see what's
happening with our Hopefuls in the cybraries right now.
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We have placed webcams throughout the cybraries located in the elementary schools.
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believe in being open and accountable and it is in this spirit that we have positioned
webcams throughout our cybraries.
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The Hope Cybraries (cyber – libraries) are the link to a past we can no longer see and the bridge to a limitless future, as yet undefined. This Cybraries represent the most democratic of institutions, established to enlighten deserving children with access to the information they need to create the future of their choice. The cybraries provide both real and virtual world facilities, and they are primarily designed for the use of our children, know as the Hopefuls, but the results are intended to benefit all of mankind. The cybraries merge the virtual world with the real world to provide the Hopeful's with the optimum learning, growing and life skills experience.
Our real world facilities are elementary school computer labs that we have converted into Hope Cybraries, and our virtual world facilities are powered by our HopeNet software. All of our cybrary programs are free of charge and designed to be used by elementary school children in the "Developing World", although we believe that our HopeNet software will also be highly useful to children in the "Developed World". The Hope Cybraries serve as study, research, life skills and livelihood centers for the Hopefuls. Our HopeNet software is the worlds first: collaborative, immersive, multi purpose, web-based, knowledge platform, for children delivered in 42 languages.
For 2011 we are trialing our HopeNet software platform through the establishment of Hope Cybraries in selected elementary schools located in Makati Philippines. However, in 2012 we shall begin offering our services to elementary schools throughout Manila and the rest of the Philippines, and thereafter we shall expand our reach to schools globally, including libraries and qualified Internet cafe's.
The Cybraries are equipped with modern Pentium class computers with high-speed internet access. The Hopefuls, under the supervision of a cybrarian (librarian), can work individually or with assistance of an online tutor to research and prepare their homework, assignments, and special projects. The cybraries provide both online and offline access to the best educational websites and software.
Why Cybraries
The right of private judgment presupposes a judgment to judge with. This presupposes knowledge, and knowledge is the result of education. Triumph of Democracy - 1888
The primary mission of the Hope Cybraries is to provide the Hopefuls with access to the planet's best knowledge. Knowledge is defined as: ”the sum of what is known.“ Knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth (save wisdom) and is the key factor in determining success.
Success is achieved through the acquisition and application of skills, and skills are obtained in part through literacy and education. However, in the developing world there exists a substantial gap between literacy, education and the skills necessary to obtain success, and that gap can only be filled by access to knowledge.
The Hope Cybrary and its services such at the Knowledge Portal are designed to bridge the gap between education and the skills necessary to sustain a successful livelihood. From a learning standpoint the road to a successful livelihood for the Hopefuls begins with education, but education doesn't provide a direct route to success. To achieve success the Hopefuls must first cultivate their education into knowledge and then their knowledge into skills. Knowledge is the key component and it is this component that is most often the issue, especially in the developing world. The Hopefuls skills are harvested from their knowledge and the quality of the Hopefuls knowledge is dependent upon their studies, internalization of knowledge and a crucial and often missing component which is ready-access to high quality knowledge-warehouses (libraries).
Teachers understand the process required to turn information into knowledge, and that is why they assign homework to their students. Homework gives the students the opportunity to process the educational information and internalize it so that it becomes useful knowledge. However the process of study and internalization must be accompanied by access to knowledge tools, and class notes and textbooks alone are not sufficient knowledge tools. The Hopefuls also need access to knowledge-warehouses and that is the purpose of libraries. However as stated in this document public libraries are few and far between in the developing world, and we believe that there is a direct correlation between prosperity and access to knowledge warehouses.
HopeNet is the world's first collaborative, immersive, multi purpose web-based, knowledge platform for children, delivered in 42 languages. HopeNet provides among it's numerous features -
Knowledge Portal
eTutoring
eMentoring
Community Building
MyBank Account
eLivelihood
Entertainment Portal
Peace Building (kindness, virtues, spirituality)
HopeNet will be the first program to provide real-time, one-to-one contact between the Hopefuls and their eTutors, eMentors and sponsors using email, chat-messaging, 3-D virtual world's, and video and voice conferencing. However, HopeNet is much more than a two-way window to social communications, we believe that it will serve as a mechanism for the social evolution of mankind. In short the HopeNet technology will provide a means for the Hopefuls to learn, grow and develop themselves into role models of hope for the potential of all of us.
The HopeNet software will enable any facility with computer/Internet access to become a virtual Cybrary. HopeNet is a one-of-a-kind endeavor – it's part “social network,” and part “social cause,” and by putting the “cause” and “network” together we believe we are laying the groundwork for a “social evolution.”
Prior to using Cybrary facilities, each child must become a Hopeful (member of HopeNet) and complete a Screening, In-processing and Familiarization program. Our goal is to foster an environment where the hopefuls are rewarded for ethical behavior, and community service. Upon completing the Screening process, filling out an application and completing 3 good deeds of community service, the child will be initially issued a temporary Cybrary card. Although a child may be barred from the program for disciplinary or other violations, they will be given opportunities to reapply for membership upon successfully overcoming the obstacle or atoning for their indiscretion.
The Screening program evaluates the children based upon the following:
Age: Our Cybrary is primarily designed for elementary school children ages 7-12
Health: Before entering the Cybrary, each child is required to have clean clothes and have acceptable hygiene.
Geographic location: The Hope Cybraries are community-based facilities,located in public elementary schools, and are intended to be supported by the local Barangay(s). Admittance will be restricted to Hopefuls that attend the elementary school.
Economic Status: “The last shall be first and the first shall be last.” Cybrary availability will establish priority to Hopefuls of the lowest economic status, but also allowing Hopefuls of higher economic status to use the facility, based upon their demonstrated community service virtues.
Virtues: Virtues are the key admittance factor to the Cybrary. Those Hopefuls who are the best behaved and have a history of community service will be given first priority. Hopefuls who demonstrate behavioral problems or who break the Cybrary rules will not be admitted, until they resolve their issues and atone through community service.
