Omar, 19 years old and living in an urban slum in India, is an early mobile internet user who repairs mobile phones in his brother‘s store. “This is magic in my palms,” he says valuing the weight of his mobile phone, not only in his hands, but in his day-to-day life. “God knows what I [...]

Are schools in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) network ready?  If so, what does it mean for improving the equity and quality of education in that part of the world? This is a complicated question, no doubt, and one that is going to be asked more frequently with the introduction of the new Broadband Partnership of [...]

USAID’s Educational Quality Improvement Program 3 (EQUIP3) has released a new digital toolkit that will empower local partners to successfully implement youth employability programs. The Youth ICT Employment Training & Placement Toolkit provides guidance and support to partner institutions in the design of these programs and presents profiles of jobs in three sectors — ICT, [...]

Six schools have benefitted from the first phase of the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) e-school initiative in Ghana. This initiative aims to equip young people with the skills and knowledge they need to participate in the global economy. The selected schools were Wa Senior High School, Ola Girls Senior High School, Walewale Senior [...]

No, I don’t actually mean you should commit to 2 years of service in the Peace Corps (though if you have the time, “life is calling” as the PC recruiters say), but what about joining forces with them?   With over 9,000 volunteers, 40% of which focus on education and another 12% in business and ICT, and [...]

Lately there has been a lot of talk about how mobile phones can improve the access to and quality of education in the classroom.  But how has the technology affected students with special needs? Souktel, an organization that designs and delivers mobile phone services for finding jobs and connecting aid agencies with communities in need, [...]

Mozilla published a book last month that offers a glimpse at how open-source technology is shaping the field of education.  The book entitled Learning, Freedom and the Web written by Anya Kamenetz and some of the 400 participants of the first Mozilla Festival held in Barcelona in 2010, explores possible answers to the questions: How [...]

Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it was partnering with the British Council in Africa to deliver their Africa Digital Schools Project aimed at assisting in “bridging the digital divide”, in six African countries. The aim is to bring new technology to African schools as part of a boosting of education experiences through Microsoft’s technology (image: [...]

A new report by Aptivate and the Centre for Commonwealth Education (University of Cambridge) suggests that there are practices that can be utilized to make ICT use in classrooms more effective.   The study, conducted in part by iSchool.zm, an online multi-media eLearning package designed to cover the whole of the Zambian school curriculum, examined [...]