Description

The National Education Telecommunications Organization and EDSAT Institute (NETO/EDSAT) began in 1988 as a not-for-profit, non-government organization to bring together US and other countries’ officials, schools, colleges, educators, government agencies, and public and private providers of telecommunications to aggregate their buying and governing power and strengthen instructional and educational opportunities and services, with open, equitable, and useful integrated telecommunication systems dedicated to education, training, and health care services.

NETO/EDSAT’s primary purposes include equitable, low-cost satellite and land-based services for education, training, information, and health care. Its programs are developed to meet the goals of:

1. Improving national and international educational, training, instructional and health care opportunities
2. Improving the opportunities for an equal and quality educational experience for all children, adults and workers regardless of their geographic location or wealth of the community, and
3. Improving access to US and other countries' education resources for schools, colleges, universities, libraries and other distance education and health centers.

NETO/EDSAT members include schools, colleges, government agencies, industry, and public officials from the US and other countries.

Access to education, instruction, training and information is critical to a knowledge-based society. Multi-technology infrastructures are effective and economical when they provide access and use for increasingly greater numbers and when primary and secondary systems are interoperable. The US and other countries must prepare all students and workers, regardless of wealth, distance and population density to be productive, participating citizens for the challenges in the 21st century.

NETO/EDSAT is supported by contributions, grants, and in-kind support from the PSARAS/ACSN Fund, Raffa & Associates, National Technology Transfer Center, Department of Defense, Westinghouse Communications, Arel Communications and Software, Ltd. of Israel, Hughes Communications, Lockheed Martin Telecommunications, BellCore International, INTELSAT, AT&T Skynet Satellite Services, and others.

NETO/EDSAT Board Members

Chairman:        Honorable John Buchanan Jr.

Members:

National Education Telecommunications Organization/Education Satellite
Email: edsatamericas@netoedsat.org

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