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	== National initiatives ==		== National initiatives ==

	There is an automatically maintained list of these at [[:Category:National initiatives]]. This has currently (~~June~~ 2009) around 30 entries but is still growing.		There is an automatically maintained list of these at [[:Category:National initiatives]]. This has currently (August 2009) around 50 entries but is still growing slightly.

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A ''National initiative'' is a concept taken from the [[UNESCO]] "Virtual Universities" classification scheme.

It refers to an initiative taken by a ministry or national agency in a country to set up a programme focussed on e-learning in university-level institutions.

Note that "national" may refer to an autonomous or semi-autonomous part of a country, e.g. [[Scotland]] or [[Catalonia]] - or even to one of the states or provinces in federal countries such as [[Australia]], [[Canada]], [[China]], [[India]] or the [[US]].

If the initiative involves more than one country but not many then it is not classified as a national iniatiative but as a multinational initiative.

If the initiative involves a supranational political grouping or range of countries in a region than it is called an international initiative.

Very often the national initiative will set up a [[consortium]] or generate a [[newly created institution]] of a unique nature in the nation involved. This leads to some overlap of the UNESCO classifications.

== National initiatives ==

There is an automatically maintained list of these at [[:Category:National initiatives]]. This has currently (June 2009) around 30 entries but is still growing.

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