[WSIS CS-Plenary] Low-cost Devices for Education

[Dr. Francis MUGUET]

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Dear Madam, Sir*

*What are the opportunities and risks of ‘low-cost devices for 
education’ initiatives? What is the way forward? *

UNESCO and infoDev (The World Bank) would like to invite you to 
participate in the ‘Low-cost Devices for Education’ meeting taking place 
in the ITU, Geneva, Switzerland from 21 22 May 2008. This meeting will 
be open to all and will be an opportunity to learn the latest about 
numerous devices and share information about applications, experiences 
and approaches. More importantly, the event is designed to request input 
and invite collaboration in designing a series of activities (sponsored 
research, capacity building and outreach, needs assessments, evaluation 
tools) to help build consensus around common sets of practical issues 
and challenges with regard to low-cost devices, and to help aid all of 
our work.

Partners and stakeholders from international organizations, private 
companies, universities, financial institutions, and civil society will 
join this event, which will take place alongside the follow-up meetings 
on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva.

The meeting will take be held at the office of the International 
Telecommunications Union (ITU) on 21 May.  Results from this meeting 
will be reported on and discussed during the official WSIS consultation 
meeting on e-learning (C7) at the ITU, on the afternoon of 22 May.

The attached draft agenda gives you more details on the objectives of 
the meeting and topics of discussion. You may register for these meetings at

http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/edrs/ITU-SG/edrs21/edrs.registration.form 
<http://www.unesco-ci.org/newsletter/lt/t_go.php?i=1322&e=MTIxODY1&l=-http--www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/edrs/ITU-SG/edrs21/edrs.registration.form>

Please note that you will need to check two boxes, one for each day:

    * 21 May 2008 -Open consultative meeting on low-cost devices for
      education (ITU, room B2)
    * 22 May pm - 3rd Facilitation Meeting on Action Line C7 e-learning,
      including low-cost devices for education (ITU, room A).

Both meetings are open to all stakeholders; we look forward to seeing 
you in Geneva soon.

Yours sincerely,

*Miriam Nisbet*
Director            
Information Society Division
Communication and Information Sector 	 
*Cédric Wachholz*
Team Leader
ICT in Education Unit
Education Sector



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