OneWorld International

OneWorld International Foundation (OWIF) "is the governing body of the OneWorld Network and the guardian of OneWorld's vision and values. OWIF was established in December 1999 and is a registered charity - no. 1095287. Its international Board of Trustees is composed democratically of trustees nominated (one per centre) by the OneWorld centres."


 * Peter Armstrong is the Director of the OneWorld International Foundation.
 * Chair of Trustees: Larry Kirkman, Dean, School of Communication, American University, Washington, DC (USA)

Donors
Accessed January 2008.


 * Ford Foundation, USA
 * Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace, UK
 * Glaser Progress Foundation, USA
 * Hivos, the Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries, Netherlands
 * Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Directorate General for International Co-operation (DGIS), Netherlands
 * Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Switzerland
 * Parthenon Trust, UK
 * Rockefeller Brothers Fund, USA
 * Department for International Development, UK
 * Omidyar Network, USA
 * MacArthur Foundation, USA

Strategic Partners
Accessed January 2008.


 * Association for Progressive Communication (APC)
 * Association mondiale des radiodiffuseurs communautaires (AMARC)
 * CIVICUS
 * The Communications Initiative
 * HIVOS
 * Inter Press Service (IPS)
 * United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Corporate Supporters
Accessed January 2008.


 * Sun Microsystems
 * Vodafone Group Foundation
 * British Telecom
 * Accenture Foundation
 * Cisco Systems

Board members
Source
 * Elena Acin, Director, Fundación Chandra (Spain)
 * Angel Font, Director, Fundación Un Sol Mon (Spain), Liaison Trustee
 * Margaret Machila, Development consultant (Zambia)
 * Charika Marasinghe, Trustee, A.T. Ariyaratne Charitable Trust; Executive council member, Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement (Sri Lanka)
 * Judy Rebick, CAW Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy, Ryerson University, Toronto (Canada)
 * María Sáenz, Board member, Acceso (Costa Rica); LASPAU-Kellogg fellow, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Washington, DC (USA)

International Advisers
Accessed January 2008.


 * Gabriel Accasina (Italy and USA)
 * A. Ariyaratne (Sri Lanka)
 * Pat Aufderheide (USA)
 * Peter Ballantyne (UK)
 * Dan Bar-On (Israel)
 * Joachim von Braun (Germany)
 * Stephen Coleman (UK)
 * Bertrand de la Chappelle (France)
 * Jonathan Dimbleby (UK)
 * Bjorn Edlund (Sweden)
 * Mark Edwards (UK)
 * Herbie Giradet (UK)
 * Betsy Hartmann (USA)
 * Stella Hughes (France)
 * P. Jayarajan MBE (India)
 * Martin Khor (Malaysia)
 * Hans Landolt (Peru)
 * Mark Malloch Brown (UK)
 * Simon Maxwell (UK)
 * Sugata Mitra (India)
 * Dusan Reljic (Germany)
 * Louk de la Rive Box (The Netherlands)
 * Chris Robertson (UK)
 * Aruna Roy (India)
 * Anthony Sampson (UK)
 * Ines Sanguinetti (Argentina)
 * David Sawe (Tanzania)
 * Jennifer Sibanda (Zimbabwe)
 * Emily Sikaswe (Zambia)
 * James Sinclair Taylor (UK)
 * Peter Stalker (UK)
 * Charles Villa-Vicencio (South Africa)
 * Chris Waddle (USA)
 * Sam Wijesinha (Sri Lanka)
 * Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh)
 * Liesbeth Zwitser (The Netherlands)

Contact

 * OneWorld International Foundation
 * 2nd Floor, River House
 * 143/145 Farringdon Road
 * London EC1R 3AB