ITU and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) jointly held a
Policy Forum in Paris, France, under the framework of the ITU m-Powering Development Initiative on Friday 11 March 2016, to examine the role policies can play in fostering innovation in the education sector and facilitate the use of mobile technology for learning.
The Forum brought together Ministers of Education as well as Ministers of ICT to discuss how newly affordable mobile devices can help address urgent educational challenges and meet the needs of students, teachers and administrators.
This invitation-only event also elaborated strategies to create synergies between national policies in the areas of technology, education, telecommunications and innovation.
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The Policy Forum took place during the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week 2016, held from 7-11 March, in Paris France. The theme of this years event is,
"Innovating for quality".
The Mobile Learning Week seeks to clarify the difficult question of how ICT can be used as an educational ally and shed light on the ways mobile technology can be leveraged — in different contexts and for different groups — to provision and assure high-quality education for all learners now and in the future.
For more details on the Mobile Learning Week 2016 click
here.
| The m-Powering Development Initiative aims to leverage the phenomenal growth of mobile phone technology to improve access to education, healthcare, agriculture, commerce, banking and in everything that will serve humanity and help achieve sustainable development.
With almost 7.1 mobile subscriptions currently active worldwide, the mobile phone places unprecedented computing technology in the palm of its users, and it is clear that it has become a universal tool with benefits far beyond the voice and text communication originally envisaged. |
