Personalities  : Al Gore, Gorbachov, and Jane Fonda have been presenters on previous shows produced or executive produced by not-for-profit companies founded by Mr. Darago.

Locations  : CCTV (Central China Television), Gosteleradio (the largest television network in Russia) and the BBC (British Broadcasting Company) have produced television “on-location”stories for or with Mr. Darago in the past. Over 40 other networks, in 40 different nations, have produced stories with or for Mr. Darago.  : Mr. Darago has been on location for negotiations, set up work and pre-production for television specials in Bogotá, Colombia; San Jose, Costa Rica; Guatemala City, Guatemala; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Quito, Ecuador; Beijing, China; Moscow, Russia; and London, England.

   : He has arranged live feeds into his television specials from a rain forest in Costa Rica, from the cities of: Sydney, Australia; Dakar, Senegal; Bogotá, Columbia; Quito, Ecuador; Guatemala City, Guatemala; Washington D.C., USA; and London, England; he has also arranged in interview with Soviet Cosmonauts in Outer Space.

Global Funding : Mr. Darago’s programs have been funded by a truly international funding group including the Sasakowa Foundation, Japan; Ministry of Health, Canada; World Health Organization, Switzerland; and several foundations or individuals in the United States of America.

Global Stature  : Mr. Darago has arranged for a former President of Costa Rica and a Senior Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations to join boards of directors. He has arranged for leaders of USSR and Sri Lanka to be on camera for his programs and has worked directly with the Senior Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations on many occasions.

Rose Hughes is an international education and marketing consultant with extensive experience working with executive management for the public and private sectors in the U.S. and abroad. Her career has focused on every dimension of international education and training; design and delivery of training programs, developing e-learning products and print materials, conducting marketing research and directing marketing outreach efforts for all media, including the Internet.

• She co-authored the business plan and served as project manager for the Community Learning and Information Network ^© (CLIN), an Internet-based, shared-usage information and communications network. http://www.clin.org

• She consulted to the World Bank to develop technology site plans and proposals for the Global Development Learning Network, originally conceived as UNet and built upon the same community-based, shared-usage concept as CLIN. http://www.gdln.org

• Rose created an online, 12-hour leadership development system for the Center for Creative Leadership. She managed via the Internet, a geographically dispersed team of over 50 subject matter experts, technology providers, a product design team, clients, and vendors. http://www.ccllead.com

• She authored a personal effectiveness program called “Synthesis” and has marketed and delivered hundreds of hours of classroom training in developing countries including Russia, Mexico, and Honduras. http://www.sintesismexico.com

• As a consultant to USAID contracts, Rose has provided program evaluation in social marketing management for education efficiency project in Honduras, designed and conducted field-site training for the Humanitarian Aid Assistance Project, and managed an in-country production of a two-hour global teleconference in Guatemala City on emergency volcano evacuation for USAID Office of Emergency Disaster Relief.

Rose’s educational background includes a Masters in Education, specializing in International Education and Training from the American University in 1977. Rose also completed an Executive MBA from George Washington University in 1998.

She has traveled to 37 countries, lived and worked in Mexico and Australia, and in addition to English, speaks fluent Spanish and French. Rose is a native of Washington, DC and continues to live in the area.

Raymond C. Cooper is the founder and President of Marketing Specialists International (MSI) Ltd., and Executive Vice President and Director of Strategic Marketing for the National Academy of Integrative Learning, Inc. He is recognized as a leading authority in his field, having successfully planned and executed the development and marketing of consumer products and services for over thirty years. This industry wide success is due to his ability to identify, develop and market intellectual property clients and their products and services.

• Serving as in-house Director of Marketing and Strategic Planner for two of the founding infomercial marketing companies for the TV/Cable Direct Response Industry, Media Arts Inc. and Twin Star Productions, Inc., Mr. Cooper’s position was to review and evaluate more than 1,000 products a month, selecting those that would best take advantage of direct response marketing opportunities through TV/Cable/Radio, Card Decks, Direct Mail, E Mail, Inbound/Outbound Telemarketing, Network Marketing, Package Inserts, Print Media, Retail, Seminars, Video/Audio Cassette Marketing and Website/Internet Marketing.

• Mr. Cooper worked as in-house Vice President International, for Community Learning and Information Network Inc. (CLIN), a not-for-profit public-private partnership creating a community-linked learning and information system. CLIN empowers people through information technologies to create a nation of educated, informed, and involved citizens, thereby providing all people equal access to education, training, and information, a requirement for life-long learning, development of new skills, and an enhanced quality of life. A CLIN Site provides: fast, direct Internet access, interactive video conferencing and distance learning, computer based instruction and information gathering, and remote sites linked to a community hub.

• As the in-house Executive Vice President and General Manager for The Outdoor Channel (The Outdoor Network Inc.), Mr. Cooper established marketing strategies that increased their subscriber base from 2 million households to 21 million households. He saved $3 million in negotiated satellite transponder, playback, and uplink contracts, and established key relationships with direct satellite TV providers and 95 of the 100 top multiple system operators and their key executives, including Bob Magness, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Tele-Communications, Inc. He provided guidance for a $10 million fund raising proposal.

• Mr. Cooper was enlisted as Consultant to The Community Broadcasters Association, where he conceptualized and instituted effective fund raising for a per inquiry direct response marketing program for the association, and for LPTV stations.

• As co-creator of global broadcast proposals that reached cumulative audiences of more than 1.5 billion people. For Director for EarthCast, a provider of individual and series global broadcasts of television programs, each of which relate to and support a major United Nations goal, Mr. Cooper negotiated global carriage contracts for the United Nations Women’s Conference in Beijing, China, and the United Nations Habitat for Humanity Conference in Istanbul, Turkey. Each global broadcast reached more than 60 countries and 300 million people. The program from Istanbul resulted in more than 50,000 hits per day to the homepage at a time when Bill Gates was getting 100,000 hits per week to MSN.

• Client List

Those companies offering contracts include: American Marketing Systems, Inc., American Telecast Corp., Blagman Media Intl. Inc. Cesari Response Television Inc., Daily Response Inc., Genesis Media Group Inc., Global Solutions Network, Inc., Great Scott Productions, Greenstone and Company, Guthy-Renker Corp., Home Shopping Network Direct International LTD., Infomercial Development Systems, Inc., International Marketing Concepts, Inc., Interwood Marketing Group, K-Tel Direct Media & Marketing Inc., Kent and Spiegel Direct Inc., Media Arts Inc., Midwest Center for Stress & Anxiety, Inc., National Media Corp., Nightingale Conant’s New World Media (NC-NWM), Quantum Television, QVC, SST Management Group, Talk America, Thane Intl. Inc., Tru Vantage, TV Media PTE Ltd., Twin Star Productions, and World Media TV.

Robert Nagel and Global Learning have agreed to partner to enhance the quality of life for the blind. Robert Nagel seek to invent, design and engineer systems to bring new visions to the blind. Robert has sixteen patents in technical areas. ( For more detail go to the link http://robertnagel.com/patents ) Global Learning has agreed to maintain links on its home page to Robertʼs home page for Blind Visions , and to include in the Global Learning web sites and television projects such examples of technology and procedures to popularize a sensitivity to the blind by other businesses and media activities.
Robert Nagel intends to build prototypes of these systems to test and demonstrate their usefulness. As these systems become available, their availability will be announced via links on the Global Learning web site. It is expected as there will be millions of viewers to Global Learning TV programs, this will enhance the business case for products created to assist the blind.

Robert Nagel intends to license others to manufacture, market and provide training for these systems that have been developed to enhance the wellbeing and productivity of the blind. The same links provided above should assist in obtaining markets and manufacturing agreements for such products.
As Robert has agreed to maintain the Blind Visions web site to further the mission described above, Global Learning has agreed to generate traffic to this web site.  
As Robert has agreed to advise equipment and software developers on how to extend their products for use by the blind through small changes or additions to their standard products, Global Learning will encourage Robert to provide advice concerning the Global Learning web site, and the Global Learning TV programs and projects to enhance their availability and usefulness to the blind.
Robert participates in national and international organizations that develop or set standards for technologies that impact on accessibility for the blind and he participates in other national and international institutions, companies, and standards groups that help forward the mission of Blind Visions.

Joyous O’Neill Darago is Originally from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  Joyous’ first language is French, whereas English is her second language. Her experience in education and as an herbalist, organic vegan chef and nature lover reinforces her passion for making the planet a better place and help others to preserve our resources for future generations.

Joyous loves finding solutions to any challenge, creating a path to success that helps her team attain its highest potential and increased self-esteem.
Joyous is committed to the environment and ecological issues. She lives her commitment by organic gardening, eating organic food, and making eco-friendly choices as often as possible. She believes that to make truly sustainable changes, we must spend our money where our values are.

In 2006, she completed 120 hours of training and hands on work in gardening and now holds the title of Master Gardener. Joyous volunteers in her county by providing garden maintenance and design and performing other related activities. She is also the research director for Earthfriends, a non-profit community group dedicated to reducing global warming.
She is on the board of directors of the Global Learning Foundation where she organizes fundraising events and manages projects. Joyous is also a Certified Tantra Yoga Trainer. She loves to hike, bike, dance, and has one belt in Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art. These activities help focus her body, mind and spirit.

Barbara Trent is the Executive Director of The Empowerment Project, EP.  EP produces and distributes its own documentary films and videos, and provides facilities, training and other support for independent producers, artists, activists and organizations working in video and other electronic media. Its purpose is to work towards democratizing access to the media, and to provide the resources necessary to put the power of media in the hands of individuals and organizations working to further important social, political and artistic purposes.  

EP coordinates and supports progressive organizing efforts, conducts media training workshops, and operates a media center with low-cost access to video and computer facilities in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.  Empowerment Project founder and Oscar®-winning documentarian, Barbara Trent speaks at universities and other institutions throughout the country in an effort to help people become more critical consumers of the media and to shed new light on the social and political issues facing us today. 

Barbara Trent is an Oscar® winning filmmaker, seasoned activist, and trail blazer for change. Her films have been acclaimed, exhibited, and broadcast around the world. Drawing on a quarter century of filming and community organizing, Ms. Trent engages audiences in an exciting journey from skepticism to illumination to action.
Appointed as an Expert Senior Training Specialist for the VISTA program under Jimmy Carter, Trent has been decorated with the Gasper Octavio Hernandez Award by the Journalist's Union in Panama, and is a recipient of the American Humanist Association's Arts Award for her "courageous advocacy of progressive ideas." She received the Academy Award in 1993. Trent co-founded and co-directs the Empowerment Project, a media resource center serving hundreds of progressive videographers and filmmakers each year. 

Ms. Trent has been featured in Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them, published by Turner Publishing, The Cultures of Globalization, published by Duke University Press, Humanity in an Age of Terror published by Duke University Press, The Search for "Reality": The Art of Documentary Filming, published by Michael Wiese Productions, Taking it to the Theaters, published by the Empowerment Project in association with National Video Resources, and coming in Fall 2000, You Cross That Line: American Activists Talk About the Process of Change.