About
Overview
The 4C Initiative is a series of projects aimed at increasing digital content capacity for education on a global scale. By providing educators and learners with the skills to discover, use, create and share content with others in the learning community worldwide, we believe we can:
- Encourage collaboration within the global education community
- Build digital content publishing capacity
- Advances use of technology and the opportunity of learning through technology
- Encourage the use of the Internet to discover and use learning resources for educational outcomes.
The four main aims of the 4C Initiative are
(i) develop a digital content supply network for education
(ii) connect education to a billion digital resources in the next ten years
(iii) help educators and educational institutions worldwide to collaborate
(iv) build local digital content publishing capacity worldwide.
Partners
The DCU Learning, Innovation and Knowledge Research Centre (LINK) is a university designated research centre located at Dublin City University. LINK’s research programme is organized around the three key domains of:
- health services management
- knowledge intensive firms, and
- technology
In each of these domains, individuals and teams are engaged in a variety of cross-disciplinary research projects that focus on creating the learning, innovation and knowledge that is the hallmark of LINK’s activities.
The primary focus of LINK’s activities relating to technology are:
- Digital content workflow
- Next generation marketing
- Technology ownership and use
Nominet Trust is a charity created by Nominet in January 2008, which maintains the .uk register of domain names and is one of the world’s largest Internet registries. They support distinctive and inventive Internet-related projects that can make a difference to people, primarily in the areas of education, online safety and inclusion. Their aim is to help disadvantaged and vulnerable groups to use the Internet – young people, the elderly, the disabled and sick, and people in deprived areas.
Cambridge University Press is non-profit organization whose mission is to further the acquisition, advancement, conservation, and dissemination of knowledge in all subjects. In 2009, Cambridge University Press celebrated 425 years of continuous publishing, a year that also marks the 475th anniversary of King Henry VIII’s grant to Cambridge University Press of ‘Letters Patent’ allowing them to print ‘all manner of books’. With branches, offices and agents throughout the world, Cambridge University Press draw on a remarkable range of authors (currently around 36,000 from 120 different countries) and market and distribute material (both print and electronic) to readers everywhere. Cambridge University Press currently employ 1,880 staff in fifty-three offices, service an inventory of 34,000 in-print titles, growing at a rate of 2,800 new ISBNs per year, and a stockholding of 20m units in nine warehouses around the world.
