 providing knowledge and skills to in-service and field personnel to make a critical difference in special areas of concern. Health, HIV-AIDS, environment, value education, good governance and human rights is an integral part of the Commonwealth of Learning's efforts as a resource for training. The Commonwealth of Learning enables those in one part of the developing Commonwealth to draw on the expertise and formal training available at a distance from other parts of the developing Commonwealth. It does so through support of programs that provide formal training leading to postgraduate certification, in open, distance and technology mediated learning. Recognizing the rich diversity of the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth of Learning also responds to region and culture specific needs. For instance, Commonwealth Educational Media Center for Asia is a Commonwealth of Learning initiative working since 1994 to serve as a resource for training and educational media in the Asian region. The Commonwealth of Learning adds value to human capacity building by creating programs and models and showing how they can be applied whenever there is a need. Bangladesh. It was here that a specially designed program to build entrepreneurial skills among rural women became a model for replication in Mozambique and other parts of the Commonwealth. This is one manner in which the Commonwealth of Learning fulfills its role as a capacity builder, helping member countries to utilize the methodologies of open and distance learning to develop human resource capacity, to develop technical capacity, to develop governance capacity, to develop environmental capacity and to develop human rights capacity. To enhance the quality of education and training for all Commonwealth citizens, the Commonwealth Open Learning interactive network for knowledge sharing, co-links anchored by the Commonwealth of Learning's Information Resource Center will provide an up-to-date and thorough inventory of distance education information resources. The Commonwealth of Learning will promote the use of online catalog access. The Commonwealth of Learning will collaborate with international and regional information providers, especially internet-based, in order to enrich the quantity and quality of information and knowledge and make it rapidly available to its Commonwealth clientele. The Commonwealth of Learning will also expand its program of publishing print materials as well as enrich the Commonwealth electronic network for school and education, the Commonwealth of Learning, from an idea in the minds of the people to an organization that reaches into all Commonwealth countries, especially to the remotest regions and the most disadvantaged populations, creating opportunities for learning. Being a bridgehead into the new information age, thinking big for the small states, the Commonwealth of Learning harnesses talent and know-how in open, distance and technology-mediated learning. And it has worked for interests which all communities honor, justice, freedom, knowledge and wisdom, the Commonwealth of Learning, a bridgehead into the new information age. Over time, this would enable us to influence the new information age by reinforcing those attributes that make the Commonwealth a force for good.