Promoting Quality Educational Outcomes
through Mobile Technology
International m4Ed4Dev Symposium

18-19 August 2011
Washington, DC USA

Mobiles for Education for Development (m4Ed4Dev) is an international collaborative effort between bilateral and multilateral donors, NGOs, foundations, private sector partners, academic researchers, and implementing organizations that is working to explore cutting edge intersections between mobiles, education and development and to promote collective knowledge sharing.

Hosted by USAID, this two-day meeting will provide an opportunity to:

• Engage leading thinkers and practitioners in the area of mobiles (broadly defined to include mobile phones, tablets, e-readers and other mobile devices and applications) for development;

• Draw from existing evidence and results to guide current and future initiatives;

• Showcase promising practices in current projects, pilots and evaluations;

• Discuss effective uses of mobiles for reading, education data and delivering education in complex educational environments;

• Inspire future innovation by catalyzing research; and

• Spur the formation of an m4Ed4Dev alliance.

Please note that the event venue has changed.  The new venue is the Hyatt Regency Bethesda, Bethesda, MD USA

This Symposium is by invitation only. For more information about this event, please see the event web site.