THE CHALLENGE
THE UNESCO SOLUTION
Who benefits?
Outcome Activities:
Required
contributions
Youth Mobile
2014-2017
- Develop
- Promote
- Sell
Developing training materials to engage young people to develop mobile apps
25000
5000
1000
200
1000
5000
Expected Results
The number of mobile phones,
especially smartphones increases exponentially in developing countries.
Budget: 750.000$
Budget: 800.000$
Scale-to-Global
- Content, communities, sustainability
- Large events, publications for sharing best practices
Engaging young women and young men
to develop mobile apps for sustainable development
2014
2015
2016
2017
The next one billion new internet connections will be from mobile devices in the hands of young people from developing countries
- There is the opportunity to teach girls and boys to develop mobile apps using mobile phones.
- Lack of PCs in developing countries precludes mobile-based tools.
- Students will not have or will never have access to PCs, the current tools for app production
Engaging technical/pedagogical experts
Identifying organizations and schools with existing advanced computer studies programmes
Developing and testing new training materials
Translations
Creating Monitoring Hub Call Centre
Development of Entrepreneurship and Mentoring programs
Incentive trained students to submit apps
Public visibility
Monitoring / evaluation
Engaging Project Management staff
Developing the training materials
Training of youth Trainers and ICT teachers
1st Global List of Mobile App Competitions
Promoting the YouthMobile Initiative
400.000$
200.000$
50.000$
800.000$
Starting down and out
Moving up and in
Starting in challenging, rural areas
Lessons for scaling-up
Ministry of Education ratification of courses
Buget 1 million
Dynamic innovation
Incorporate post-2015 Millennium Goals
Building mobile apps with mobile phones
a. Development of the training materials
b. Training of thousands of youth trainers, ICT teachers
c. Development, promotion of Mobile Apps
d. Implementing monitoring/call centre,
e. Project monitoring, evaluation, and reporting on progress
a. Assessing and developing the training materials, and device/Operating system independent software development frameworks
b. Developing training materials for Face-to Face, Self-directed Learning
c. Print materials, website, Mobile Apps
d. Assessment by Ministry of Education, Quality Assurance
a. Smartphones for App testing by the students
b. Owned by the students
c. Get the 1st 1 free, buy the next
Funding
Expertise in Teaching Mobile Apps Development
Smartphones Handsets
Contact:
Abel Caine (a.caine@unesco.org)
Davide Storti (d.storti@unesco.org)
Training of
Youth Trainers
Training
the ICT teachers
Developing the
1st Global List of App Competitions
UNESCO will provide young people with the high-level skills and confidence to
Locally relevant mobile apps that solve issues of sustainable development and provide employment
HOW
Funding
Expertise in Teaching Mobile Apps Development
Smartphones Handsets
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