About Education for Development and Support Network (EDSN)
The Education for Development and Support Network Foundation dba EDSN's (hereinafter, "EDSN”) mission is to advance accessibility and sharing of placed-based Research-to-Practice and knowledge through continuous learning and community engagement.
EDSN's vision is to seamlessly integrate formal education and informal experiential learning for sustaining desired quality of life. it is a Plexlearning association of useful knowledge sharing missionaries for peaceful and sustainable cohabitation with Gaia -- Earth, currently the only known inhabitable planet.
PlexLearning empowers groups of individuals to co-learn and act collaboratively with other autonomous technological agents in perceiving, interpreting, and responding to life’s opportunities and challenges. It extends beyond schooling to education -- a purposeful sense of being framed by curiosity, the politics of sharing knowledge, and continuous learning about life itself.
EDSN provide programs for motivated groups of individuals. EDSN develops AI-powered experiential programs for motivated groups of individuals who seek to navigate the politics of acquiring and applying desired knowledge. These programs remove barriers and fill critical gaps in building sustainable socioeconomic bridges that lead to desirable quality-of-life, careers and thriving neighborhood communities.
Our Plexlearning programs foster long-term Open access ecosystems for quality-of-life solutions. They seamlessly integrate formal education and informal learning with life. These cost-sharing solutions include entrepreneurship incubators, neighborhood makerspaces, workforce retooling, technical certifications, career management, socioeconomic scaffoldings, place-based fellowships, and lifestyle-vocations that empower participants to continuously learn, share, and adopt.
Who we Are
The Education for Development and Support Network (EDSN) is a Plexlearning association. It is an organization of place-based Research-to-Practice collaborators dedicated to advancing meaningful and sustainable quality of life through community engagement and experiential learning.
Our Mission
To advance accessibility, adopting, and sharing of placed-based Research-to-Practice and knowledge through continuous learning and community engagement.
Our Vision
To seamlessly integrate formal education and informal experiential learning for desired quality of life that will promote peaceful and sustainable cohabitation with Gaia -- Earth, currently the only known inhabitable planet.
EDSN Advisory Board
Below are the listed names of each member of the Advisory Board, entity or entitles they represent, and related titles. Each member of the Board serves as a guide to the functions of EDSN as a nonprofit organization, with the mission of improving lives by enabling access, education, and innovation through “making”.
Lynroy Grant
Carna Resources Group,
www.carna.com
Data Scientist, Machine
language ethnographer, & PlexLearning Architect, Director, PlexLearning
Community Engagement & Research-to-Practice Partnerships
Thomas Langdon
Langdon & Langdon Financial Services, LLC
Roger Williams University,
Money Education: https://www.money-education.com/
Vangella Hazle Buchanan
Aline is one of the iconic people in life who can say they love what they do. She mentors 100+ in-house developers and looks after the community of thousands of developers.
Iris Joe
Chief Financial Officer
Iris, with her international experience, helps us easily understand the numbers and improves them. She is determined to drive success and delivers her professional acumen to bring the company to the next level.