It is capable of engaging individuals and communities in different kinds of learning processes. It also provides the opportunity for greater relevance and socio-cultural specificity to content and activities. It can be used to support the development and legitimization of local knowledge systems. It opens up learning to any time and any place. It allows learners to be given a greater role in planning their own learning programmes and producing their own learning materials.
Technology can support the development of local knowledge systems and cultural diversity.
Agent for Institutional Change Technology can create spaces for questioning existing policies, institutions. It can support the presentation of ideas differently, create new avenues for reflecting on current, future and past realities, and allow people to work with others in different ways. It allows for non-linear thinking and processes. It allows for non-traditional actors to enter into dialogue over decisionmaking. It can engage individuals to change their perceptions or attitudes about themselves or others.