NEST 2011 to focus on ICT role in education
How can ICT change education for the better? The participants at the first NEST – The Networked Society Forum are ready to discuss this crucial question.
Education concerns us all. It is of fundamental importance for ending generational cycles of poverty and disease while providing a foundation for sustainable development. Information and communication technology (ICT) has now reached the point where it can improve the quality of education and connect people to global learning opportunities – and it is therefore natural that education is the theme for the first NEST – The Networked Society Forum, to be held in Hong Kong on November 11-13.
Initiated by Ericsson and hosted by Ericsson’s President and CEO Hans Vestberg, NEST is an incubator for new ideas and solutions on how to leverage the power of ICT to bring benefits to people, business and society around the world. The forum brings together top-level management from the ICT industry, international leaders, professors and high-level representatives from governments and authorities to discuss topics of global interest.
Top of the agenda in Hong Kong is one crucial question: how can ICT accelerate education and learning for everyone, everywhere? Within this theme, NEST 2011 will bring up three main topics: the role of technology access in reshaping education; the redefined educational models needed in a Networked Society in which everything that can benefit from a connection is connected; and how education can support social mobility.
Leading and inspiring the discussions will be global figures including President Bill Clinton, founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and the 42nd President of the United States of America; Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute, Professor of Sustainability Development and Professor of Health Policy Management at Columbia University; David Miliband, the youngest person in 30 years to hold the office of UK Foreign Secretary; Christine Loh, founder and CEO of Civic Exchange, a Hong Kong-based non-profit think tank; Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook; Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University; Jan Eliasson, President of the 60th session of the UN General Assembly; and Sir Harold Kroto, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
UNESCO and UNICEF say that almost 70 million children are out of school globally, with millions more leaving school early without acquiring the knowledge and skills that are crucial for a decent livelihood, and about 800 million adults lack basic literacy skills. The principal objective of NEST 2011 is to gather some of the world’s smartest minds and inspire new initiatives and approaches that show how ICT can be a force for positive change in this vital area.
Education concerns us all. It is of fundamental importance for ending generational cycles of poverty and disease while providing a foundation for sustainable development. Information and communication technology (ICT) has now reached the point where it can improve the quality of education and connect people to global learning opportunities – and it is therefore natural that education is the theme for the first NEST – The Networked Society Forum, to be held in Hong Kong on November 11-13.
Initiated by Ericsson and hosted by Ericsson’s President and CEO Hans Vestberg, NEST is an incubator for new ideas and solutions on how to leverage the power of ICT to bring benefits to people, business and society around the world. The forum brings together top-level management from the ICT industry, international leaders, professors and high-level representatives from governments and authorities to discuss topics of global interest.
Top of the agenda in Hong Kong is one crucial question: how can ICT accelerate education and learning for everyone, everywhere? Within this theme, NEST 2011 will bring up three main topics: the role of technology access in reshaping education; the redefined educational models needed in a Networked Society in which everything that can benefit from a connection is connected; and how education can support social mobility.
Leading and inspiring the discussions will be global figures including President Bill Clinton, founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and the 42nd President of the United States of America; Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute, Professor of Sustainability Development and Professor of Health Policy Management at Columbia University; David Miliband, the youngest person in 30 years to hold the office of UK Foreign Secretary; Christine Loh, founder and CEO of Civic Exchange, a Hong Kong-based non-profit think tank; Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook; Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University; Jan Eliasson, President of the 60th session of the UN General Assembly; and Sir Harold Kroto, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
UNESCO and UNICEF say that almost 70 million children are out of school globally, with millions more leaving school early without acquiring the knowledge and skills that are crucial for a decent livelihood, and about 800 million adults lack basic literacy skills. The principal objective of NEST 2011 is to gather some of the world’s smartest minds and inspire new initiatives and approaches that show how ICT can be a force for positive change in this vital area.
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