The Mobiles for Education (mEducation) Alliance

Seminar Series

November 12, 2013 || Peace Corps

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Mobile technologies and the Volunteer

potential

Peace Corps

ICTD @ Peace Corps

PC T4D Strategy

Linking T4D and mEducation

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps to promote world peace and friendship.In 1961, President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps to promote world peace and friendship.

Goal 1: Helping the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women.

Goal 2: Helping promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served.

Goal 3: Helping promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans.

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12%

12%

21%

43%

Peace Corps Sectors by Country | 2012

6%

21%

12%44%

12%4%

AgricultureCommunity Economic DevelopmentEducationEnvironmentHealthYouth in Development

Peace Corps Sectors by Population | 2012

Peace Corps

ICTD @ Peace Corps

PC T4D Strategy

Linking T4D and mEducation

1.Connectivity and devices have become more available.

2.Builds on expertise and interests of Volunteers.

3.Priority of the host countries, counterparts, and the U.S. Government.

4.Devices are less taboo and easier to incorporate.

The ICTD potential for Peace Corps

1. Connectivity and devices have become more available.

2. Builds on interest, comfort, and expertise of Volunteers.

3. Priority of the host countries, counterparts, and the U.S. Government.

4. Devices are less taboo and easier to incorporate.

Peace Corps

ICTD @ Peace Corps

PC T4D Strategy

Linking T4D and mEducation

Peace Corps T4D Strategy Principles Draft

1. Be empathetic.

2. Don’t define in terms of technology.

3. Don’t take interaction for granted.

4. Seek low cost solutions that build on existing infrastructure.

5. Share, share, share.

1. Be empathetic.

2. Don’t define in terms of technology.

3. Don’t take interaction for granted.

4. Seek low cost solutions that build on existing infrastructure.

5. Share, share, share!

Gartner Hype Cycle

3D Printing

Bitcoin

OpenBTS One Laptop Per Child

SMS

Tablets and e-readers

Open Source Resources

Electronic health records

ICTD RCTs

Mobile money

Gabriel’s subjective ICTD assessment

Peace Corps

ICTD @ Peace Corps

PC T4D Strategy

Linking T4D and mEducation

Peace Corps’ PCLive

Joanie Cohen-Mitchell Literacy Specialist and Chief of Programming (acting)

Background: M.Ed. in nonformal education and Ed.D. in Educational Policy, Research and Administration with a focus on literacy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Over 25 years experience working in program development, evaluation and training design and delivery in adult and nonformal education, basic education, literacy and early childhood programs in Haiti, Guatemala, El Salvador, Peru, Namibia, the eastern Caribbean and throughout Massachusetts. Taught graduate and undergraduate courses at UMass, SIT, and Greenfield Community College. RPCV Haiti and Paraguay and Pre-service Trainer in Haiti and Costa Rica. Fluent in Spanish, Haitian Kreyol, and once spoke Gaurani.

Gabriel Krieshok Technology for Development Program Specialist (acting) and Knowledge Management Administrator

Background: M.P.P. from the Ford School of Public Policy and M.S.I. from the School of Information at the University of Michigan with a specialization in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD). Over seven years experience in international development; including program evaluation, project management, education programs, survey design, ethnography, monitoring & evaluation, and science & technology in development. Returned Peace Corps Volunteer in Madagascar. Fluent in French, Conversational in Malagasy, Beginner in Spanish, Fluent in Python.

Presenters

Current SteeringCommittee Members

Slide 5 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:President_greets_Peace_Corps_Volunteers._White_House,_South_Lawn._-_NARA_-_194180.tif !Slide 6 http://www.nrm.org/2011/01/norman-rockwell-museum-director-travels-to-ethiopia-as-state-department-cultural-diplomacy-speak-and-specialist-on-norman-rockwell/peace-corps_ethiopia_web/ !Slide 7 http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacecorps/5961349069/ !Slide 8 http://www.peacecorpsconnect.org/2010/09/out-to-the-ball-game-with-peace-corps/ !Slides 13 and 14 http://manypossibilities.net/ !Slide 15 http://www.peacecorps.gov/resources/media/press/1858/ !Slide 15 http://www.peacecorps.gov/resources/media/press/1858/

!Slide 16 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OLPC_Class_-_Mongolia_Ulaanbaatar.JPG !Slide 20 http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacecorps/6756126731/lightbox/ !Slide 22 http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/jin115/imgs/a/d/ad6f0ecc.jpg !Slide 28 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bongohive.rhok.apps.bantubabel&hl=en !Slide 29 http://www.theanou.com !Slide 30 http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/sis/newslog/2013/08/15/RwandaPeaceCorpsEmpowerSchoolGirlsOnICTUse.aspx

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