Tag: Technology

m:Lab East Africa: Africa’s first mobile Lab

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Kenya recently launched Africa’s first mobile apps lab known as m-lab. The facility based in Nairobi Kenya will serve as incubation center for new business in the mobile space within East Africa countries. Among the initiatives which will be taken by the lab are training, business development support, linkages with financiers for seed capital and venture capital and more. The main aim is to stimulate developers, researchers to come up with innovative products and services with impact in the local market and in the global stage. The success of the mobile app like Mpesa in Kenya is motivating many mobile app developers in East Africa to come with more innovative solutions.

Recently we sat down with John Kieti the m:Lab East Africa Manager to understand more about the lab:

Mobile Learning Infrastructure

With friendly permission of © ICWE GmbH, Photograph by Georgina Smith, Inzy Studios, Lusaka, Zambia

How online education is changing the way we learn

Infographic about how online education is changing the way we learn.

Mobile Learning for Humanitarian Relief Operations

Insights into the role that mobile learning can play in humanitarian relief operations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4LgsYMx_FE

Mobile Learning Environment

The MoLE (Mobile Learning Environment) project is a collaboration between 22 nations, sponsored by the US Government. These partners are working together to build a platform independent set of tools aimed at learning collaboration and information sharing on mobile devices.

European Lifelong Learning Indicators Project (ELLI project)

The European Lifelong Learning Indicators Project (ELLI project) was launched by Bertelsmann Stiftung in January 2008 in an effort to make the concept of lifelong learning in Europe more understandable and transparent.

Building Broadband. Strategies and Policies for the developing World.

Broadband penetration pushes growth. A World Bank Report (2010)

World’s differences in the use of mobile phones

Future trends in mobile use.

Charles Leadbeater: Education Innovation in the Slum

Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education – and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world’s poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn.

Sugata Mitra: The child driven education

Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education – the best teachers and schools don’t exist where they’re needed most.

Mobile Trends in 2020 in Africa

A collaborative outlook by 28 Experts. Slideshare presentation.

Mobiles in Classrooms

BridgeIT is a program that uses mobile phones to bring educational videos to rural classrooms – a mobile teaching tool deployed in The Philippines and Tanzania, which is changing the way teachers and students interact.

Butterfly Works

Butterfly Works co-designs for a better world. They are based in Amsterdam and work globally. They have developed numerous concepts which contribute to greater equality in the world, including projects on digital and mobile learning.

How to Teach Using Mobile Phones

Mobiles are commonplace in secondary schools, but can they be used for teaching?

European Institute of Innovation and Technology

The EIT is a new independent community body which was set up to address Europe’s innovation gap. They aim to rapidly emerge as a key driver of EU sustainable growth and competitiveness through the stimulation of world-leading innovation.

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

A very helpful linklist for technology for education provided by the ed-lab.

Education and Technology for Learning

A report by the Univerity of Staffordshire

A Social Revolution

Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs) is a global movement and registered Social Enterprise that provides innovative solutions to address various complex problems. An exciting new exciting project, “Facebook for FREE Education” will be extending its educational services to more of the community members in impoverished parts of Cape Town.

Learning In Year 2111

Imagine how kids might be learning 100 years from now. This exercise is not easy. To put this in perspective, 40 years ago, consumers didn’t have cell phones, smart phones, personal computers, internet, social networking, digital cameras, email, GPS, tablets, laptops, Skype, YouTube—and the list goes on and on …