In a ceremony at the OCWC Global 2013 Conference, the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) President, Tian Belawati, Rector, Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia, and the OCWC President, Anka Mulder of Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

Both parties undertake to explore opportunities in the following areas:

• Mutual promotion of activities
• Joint regional conference
• Explore a joint initiative to support policy discussion and development facilitating open and distance education
• Joint membership services
• Opportunities to have synergy in projects, for example in giving attention to and promote “flagship projects”

ICDE is the leading global membership organization for enhancing the quality of open, distance, flexible and online education, including e-learning. More about ICDE: http://www.icde.org/en/