JOIN US: My Mobile My Life
Posted on | March 20, 2010 | No Comments
Mobile Development has been started in our NING Community: Join and spread the word!
We will also have a lottery for our Facebook fans, which are members in MMMLife-NING. Winner will get cool product prizes!! There will also be case a competition for developers. More about these soon!
Don’t forget our Summer Workshop & Festival in Tornio 26-28.8.2010. Mark it to your calendar today!
Here’s our project idea in short, what we wish from developers and what we can provide:
Aim
- To find new, easy to understand, simple to use mobile solutions for people living in remote locations to help them to make their lives better.
- To innovate and develop new approaches and solutions to the use of mobile technology in MLearning, MHealth, Mbanking and Mgovernance
- To make mLearning, mHealth, mBanking and mGovernance available to all human as a right to access these services through their mobiles.
- To find and gather people interested in the topic for online collaboration, and encourage them to become MMMLife Developers
What we want
- Your ideas, experiences, practices and expertise in mobile technology and solutions to be shared in our community
- School papers, white papers, presentations within the topic to be shared in MMMLife-NING
- Follow ups on mobile technology and solutions
What we provide
- Platform to share, network and innovate
- Ideas and topics for school projects and cases
- Case competition
- The first ICT4D Summer event within mobile solutions in Finland
Apply for Children’s Peace Prize 2010
Posted on | March 16, 2010 | No Comments
Baruani Ndume received the fifth International Children’s Peace Prize from Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai.
The children’s peace prize is awarded every year to the students, for their courageous and remarkable actions and thoughts that have made a difference in counting problems, which affect children around the world.
This peace prize is an effort to increase the attention towards the serious issues regarding to improve the future of children around the world. The motivation behind the Prize is to give a platform to children to express their thoughts and personal involvement in their children’s rights.
KidsRights feels that children should be recognized, awarded and motivated in their fierce efforts to improve their own situation and that of the children in their environment and even the world.
Organizations and governments will be addressed to nominate a child between the ages of 12-18 years old, who they think is performing extraordinary efforts to improve or implement children’s rights for themselves and children in their environment.
LEARNER VIEWS: USE OF ICT IN EMERGENCIES
Posted on | March 12, 2010 | No Comments
In assignment 2 students were supposed to write their reflection about different ways ICT as a tool can provide quality education for the Internally Displaced people (IDP), people in earthquakes and disaster areas through ICT. One of teacher training student Mr. Babar has given his views that how we can use ICT tools for learning. In his assignment he used his authentic learning environment and included his learners in the assignment. Its very interesting to read about his students perception about mobile technologies.
I was very pleased to see the topic because now I can clearly tell the learners about the importance of modern means of communication.
What is communication?
There are five major components of communication given below: -
• Sender.
• Receiver
• Message
• Medium
• Feed Back
Communication means to keep in touch with other people and ways of getting from one place to another. In order to communicate, we use languages. We can communicate by speaking, writing, jargons or by making sign.
Ways of communication in Pakistan.
There is strong communication system in Pakistan. Following are some ways of communication in Pakistan.
(1) Radio and Television.
(2) Post office.
(3) Newspapers.
(4) Cell Phone
(5) Computer.
Roads, Railways, Airways and shipping are the other main sources of communication.
Modern and Fast means of communication.
Now a days Cell phone and computer are the main fast and modern source of communication.
(1) Mobile phone / cell phone
Cell phone is a great source of communication in Pakistan. Millions of people are connected to each other with cell phones. From Pakistan, we can make a cell phone call to any country in the world with in no time. Owing to cell phone system, the world is like a global village now. I also told the learners about the best and modern shape of
Cell phone, which has no wire and we can take it anywhere and any time that is mobile phone or cell phone. During my lecture I pleased to know that learners have much awareness about cell phone. Then I told them about how could we use it in our daily routines, such as for alarm, reminders & scheduling. And then I told them why today I came to school late. Due to lost of my cell. I told them that we could use our cell phone in all types of communication. Such as
(1) Radio, we can use our cell phone to listen NEWS, songs, radio transmission.
(2) NEWS, we can use our cell phone for sports news and all types of news nationally and internationally.
(3) As post office, we can use our cell phone for short message (SMS) and e-mails,
For wishes to any body at festivals, Eid, Christmas, and birthday in few seconds.
I also told them we can use cell phone instead of computer and I show them some relevant videos about their lesson through laptop. Then at the end of the lesson I asked the learner to know more about the usage of cell phone. Consequently, in the next day the learner came with different ideas.
(1) On next day, a student “Moin Zaffar” told me that my elder brother went to the northern areas for trip. There he used his cell phone and send beautiful sceneries of northern areas from MMS. We felt that we are also with him and enjoying that trip.
(2) Another learner “Mazhar” said that my first cousin who has been living in Mansehra City since 1995. Every year our all-family members have gone there in summer vacations. The terrible earthquake that was happened on 8th October 2005, wiping out this beautiful town, all school buildings were destroyed in this disaster. His cousin told him that some international organizations provide him and other children education through I.C.T tools.
Mobile Phones for Development Cooperation
Posted on | March 8, 2010 | No Comments
MKFC Stockholm College and Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences call for everyone interested in developing new mobile solutions to join in online collaboration to innovate and develop new approaches and solution to the use of mobile technology in MLearning, MHealth and MBanking.
The Nordic countries as knowledge nations have the responsibility to enhance democracy and human rights. Today this is made possible with the extended use of information technology and especially citizens using social media. This creates the main pillars for a sustainable society, promoting growth, welfare and peace. New social media extends the capacity of lonely humans to communicate.
Social media is extended to the global communities all around the world with rapidly growing rate of mobile phones. Mobile phones provide people in remote locations and in developing countries the possibility to gain access to greatest equalizing tool ever invented: the Internet. Through online communities we can explore, share, create awareness and participate to realize our dreams and common causes. The social media can make communication and the flow of information transparent and include all kind of actors working for the same causes.
Read more at our mobile for development sites
My Mobile My Life
My Mobile My Life Community
Read the report on how to use mobile learning and other services in developing countries
Post a comment or e-mail alamdar@mkfc.se if you are interested in develop new mobile solutions.
Assignment 6: Social Entrepreneurship
Posted on | February 23, 2010 | No Comments
This week student will learn about social entrepreneurship. They will present the first step of implementation which they have planned from previous assignment 5. They are suppose to use ICT tools in the assignment to make the learning processes and social entrepreneurship visible. This inspirational video is to show that how it is important to use social entrepreneurship for social change.
