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Education is a Fundamental Human Right.
In the last decade under the objectives outlined in the Millennium Declaration, a lot of progresses have been made in order to achieve full and universal access to quality education. Despite the progress made in the last decade, there is still a long way to go so that this goal is achievable and become a reality.

The objectives outlined by 2015 in the Millennium Declaration in 2000 established that all children regardless of gender or social origin should have equal opportunity to complete at least the primary school and also promote a significant increase in the rates of schooling the student population in general.

Despite the progress made in the last decade to reducing the number of children without access to education of about 106 million to 67 million, according with the EFA Global Monitoring Report of 2011 many are still out of school, and if current trends continue, it seems that in 2015, there will be more children without access to education than at present, about 72 million.

In spite of progress there is still much to do in the areas of combating school dropout, gender discrimination, ethnic discrimination, lack of qualified teachers, lack of decent facilities, lack of programs and learning materials, minimization of the rurality factor, among others. These are factors that make the goal of universal education with the same quality accessible to all under the same conditions more difficult to achieve.

Armed conflicts, the use of schools as divisive factor at cultural and ethnic level, the mass movements of populations in regions of conflict aggravates further the conditions for achieving the goals set by the United Nations.

Adult education is also a goal of reaching out, about 17% of the adult world remains without basic school qualifications, about 796 million people.

Education is a key aspect of human development, a vehicle for peace promotion, tolerance and respect between peoples, cultures and ethnicities, which promotes the improvement of life conditions, equality, provides employment opportunities and techniques skills helping to eradicate poverty and helps improving health, among others. The education deserves more attention, commitment and efforts of the world community than that which has been made so far, for example, only about 2% of all worlds humanitarian aid goes to education.

If access to education is important, no less important is to ensure the quality that is also a global challenge.

The quality of education is, among others, directly related to the availability and quality of learning materials. Many schools around the world have little more than a tableau and some books. The lack of equipment and books often stem from lack of financial resources, inefficient distribution systems and corruption. There are few developing countries or in the development process that can ensure that their students have access to the entire set of books and materials needed for schooling.

Some governments are involving the private sector in production and distribution of textbooks, which in some cases and due to price factor underline the exclusion of access to the poor and disadvantaged. Another important factor is the language of instruction, which has a direct impact on learning and academic performance that should begin at the student's home language, which does not always happen, forcing students to begin their journey using an unknown language, or by political imposition or by lack of content or qualified teachers to teach in home language. For example, in sub-Saharan Africa there are over 2,500 languages where only 13% of children receive primary education in their mother tongue.

Aware of this problem QINet intends to join the global effort to promotion of universal quality education through the development and implementation of an ambitious project in a global scale that will enable millions of children, youth and adults can have an easier way to access quality content, with respect of ethnic diversity and cultural of all peoples, the QINet Project.

The QINet "Digital Network of Knowledge" is based in a global platform with integrated applications that enable the distribution of multilingual educational content in electronic or printed format enabling that the various educational institutions around the world can benefit their students with access to standardized textbooks and educational content updated, following the highest international standards of teaching in a fast, effective and free way. The development and implementation of the QINet project will allow millions of students to have access, under the same conditions, to educational resources and quality content regardless of their social background, race, creed or nationality.

The QINet makes also available to States and educational institutions a series of technological tools, consulting and training programs to enable them to, in a transversal way, the development of actions that promote a balance between contents and objectives planned for each discipline at each level of education, preserving and valuing the cultural and ethnic diversity of each individual or of each community involved in the project.

The QINet provides through its platform a true knowledge network that is independent of the country, the programmatic plan or language. All the students will have the same contents in their local books with respect with the official learning curriculum. In this way it is easier to evaluate the asymmetries between them and implement new strategies no minimize them and achieve, day by day, a better education for all.

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