"The potential use of cell phones as innovative, cheap and efficient tools for public health was a primary theme in a Mobile Health Summit convened by the MHS last December that included the Combatant Command surgeons and experts from multiple federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and the WHO. "Over half the world (or about 4 billion people) own a cell phone and only 400 million own a computer, so it's only a matter of time before everyone uses a cell phone for all their computing nee

The second annual OLE General Assembly to be held on 11-15 October in Kigali, Rwanda, will explore what is known, what needs to be known and how we can know about scalable approaches to achieving Quality Universal Basic Education with marginalized children around the world.

What Works?: 2010 OLE General Assembly
Exploring Scalable Approaches to Quality Universal Basic Education with Marginalized Children
Kigali, Rwanda, 11-15 October 2010
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Why?

The devastating floods in Pakistan have been covered by trained reporters and mainstream media outlets around the world. Citizens, often on the front lines of the flood, have also been contributing thousands of reports though mobile phones, in part enabled by the citizen journalism service SeenReport.

Some time back, we argued against top‐down approaches. But we also said that fruitful knowledge exchange was a two‐way street. Confused? Clarification: Roots for Relevance. Stars to Scale up.