Mobile Learning Week: Leveraging technology to empower women and girls

Education empowers women and girls. It provides them with the ability and knowledge needed to direct their own lives. The positive ripple effect of education for women and girls is so far-reaching that a number of international organizations have persuasively argued it may be the single most effective tool for development.

With the theme “Leveraging technology to empower women and girls”, UN Women and UNESCO will co-host Mobile Learning Week 2015 from 23-27 February 2015 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. It comprises a series of workshops, symposia, a high-level policy forum and research seminars. In past years it has brought together over 700 people from over 60 countries.

As countries take stock of progress in implementing the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action – which addressed education and ICT as two of its critical components – Mobile Learning Week 2015 will seek to illuminate how increasingly ubiquitous, affordable and powerful mobile technology – from basic handsets to the newest tablet computers – can be leveraged to accelerate high-quality education for women and girls, especially those living in disadvantaged communities. 

You may register for the event or submit a proposal for a workshop, symposium or exhibition. The deadline is 21 November 2014.