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About us Nokia: Mobile technology can help achieve education for all. Nokia’s education approach is aligned to UNESCO's Education for All goals, and Nokia aims to use its products, services and technology to support those objectives and the programme's 2015 timeframe. Nokia is leading the way by providing new ways for students to engage in education and learning.
The Pearson Foundation: The Pearson Foundation aims to make a difference by promoting literacy, learning, and great teaching by collaborating with leading businesses, not-forprofits, and education experts to share good practice; foster innovation; and find workable solutions to the educational disadvantages facing millions of young people and adults across the globe.
UNESCO: One of the main priorities of UNESCO is attaining quality education for all and lifelong learning. Through Mobile Learning technology concept development, UNESCO aims to identify specific mobile technologies to support the achievement of Education For All, in order to understand what works and why.
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Education for All Crowdsourcing Challenge
10 October 2011 - 31 May 2012
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7, place de Fontenoy 73532 Paris SP 07 France Website: www.unesco.org
The Education for All (EFA) Crowdsourcing Challenge is an eight-month initiative to elicit suggestions on how mobile communication can help achieve EFA goals.
http://www.ideasproject.com/efa
Education for All The Education for All (EFA) movement is a global commitment to provide quality basic education for all children, youth and adults. At the World Education Forum (Dakar, 2000), 164 governments pledged to achieve EFA and identified six goals to be met by 2015. UNESCO is mandated to coordinate the collective efforts of governments, development agencies, civil society and the private sector to reach the EFA goals.
Crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing uses group collaboration to achieve a specific goal. Participants post ideas and other participants can vote for or against them, along with feedback and solutions. A unique element of crowdsourcing is the ability to connect people with needs or ideas with software developers who can address those needs or realize those visions.
Participating is extremely easy. Just visit the EFA Crowdsourcing Challenge website, select the appropriate EFA goal, and then click on the ‘Create an Idea’ link.
What are the rewards?
Approach The EFA Crowdsourcing Challenge is designed to enable people with similar interests to connect and collaborate on ideas to achieve EFA. It plans to develop suggestions emerging from the dynamic interaction between education experts, teachers, parents, students and software developers. Each month will feature a separate EFA goal. The first month is devoted to finding solutions on how mobile communication can help achieve literacy.
How to participate
IdeasProject IdeasProject is an online community for everybody from all around the world to brainstorm. It enables the two-way exchange of ideas between users and developers around innovation powered by Nokia. IdeasProject is founded on philosophy of democratized innovation and idea crowdsourcing.
Bookmark the site! http://www.ideasproject.com/efa
Monthly Nokia smartphone prizes will be awarded to the best ideas recognized by the panel of judges. The best ideas will also be promoted on UNESCO’s website to encourage the development of the ideas into concrete projects. In addition, the Pearson Foundation will donate US$ 3,000 to each sub-challenge (EFA goal) winner and a library of children’s books worth US$ 3,000 to a non-profit organisation in the country of each sub-challenge winner.
Relevant dates 10/10/2011 - Start of EFA Crowdsourcing Challenge and launch of Literacy goal 10/11/2011 - Launch of Universal Primary Education goal 09/12/2011 - Launch of Life Skills & Lifelong Learning goal 10/02/2012 - Launch of Quality of Education goal 09/03/2012 - Launch of Gender Equality in Education goal 10/04/2012 - Launch of Early Childhood Care and Development 31/05/2012 - End of Crowdsourcing Challenge
