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Projects from 14 countries are included. Some of the projects havecompleted their work while others are at various stages ofimplementation. The innovations reported invariably involve some formof curriculum or materials development and pre- or in-service teachertraining. They comprise a diverse range of topics from the developmentof school-community relationships to provide basic education for underprivilegedgroups, such as girls, slum dwellers and ethnic minorities, tocurriculum development initiatives that aim to develop textbooks andother teaching resources, to pedagogical innovations to facilitate accessto difficult concepts in science, and to promote thinking skills whilerealizing the vision of individualized learning supported by informationtechnology.Two introductory chapters provide a context for the ‘snapshots’. PhilipBergstrom has provided a history of the development of cooperation foreducational innovation between countries in the Asia-Pacific region,supported by UNESCO, leading up to the establishment of ACEID in1973. John Dewar Wilson describes the range of developmental contextsin the countries in this diverse region, and the strategies through whicheducational innovation for sustainable development may be, and is beingpromoted, as illustrated in this publication.I should like to thank those who have submitted information for thedatabase, and to encourage those who have innovations to report to do sovia ACEID, so that the range of interesting work being pursued across theregion may be documented and disseminated.I also wish to thank Dr Rupert Maclean, former Chief of ACEID, forinviting me to undertake this task, and Dr Zhou Nanzhao, current ActingChief of ACEID, for backing this project. Mr Mike Lally, consultant toACEID, compiled many of the original Innodata entries on which thispublication is based.John Dewar WilsonBangkokAugust 2001