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Alex Twinomugisha has extensive experience in ICTs for Education and Development in the areas of planning, design, implementation and management. He is currently the Africa Regional Director for the Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative based in Nairobi. Prior to this he was the ICT Specialist for GeSCI for 3 years, a role that entailed providing strategic advice to partner governments on ICT in Education issues. Prior to his work with GeSCI he was a consultant to the World Bank in Washington DC for the African Virtual University (AVU) project responsible for setting up and managing the online and satellite infrastructure for eLearning involving 34 learning centers in over 15 African countries. He later established and managed the ICT department of the independent AVU organization based in Nairobi, Kenya.
David Harding, a UK citizen, is the Education Program Leader in the World Bank Institute. He joined the World Bank in 1998 working in the Latin American and Caribbean Region of the Bank. Before joining the Bank, he served in UNICEF India as the Chief of Education, and before that with the British Government development agency, ODA (now DFID), as an Education Field Manager in West Africa, and for the British Council as a Senior Education Adviser in Myanmar (Burma). He has taught Education Policy and Methodology at university level in several countries in the Middle East region, and has been a teacher and teacher trainer in the UK. He has a PhD in Education from the London University, Institute of Education, M.A.s in both Education and Applied Linguistics, and first degrees from the universities of London and Cambridge. He has worked extensively in capacity development for education policy makers and technical staff in developing countries, designing and implementing education reforms throughout the world, especially in the areas of teacher development, rural education, curriculum reform, language of instruction and language planning issues. He has authored several articles on education policy, teacher management and development, and language of instruction issues.
Deepika Sharma. Independent Consultant. Currently, on assignment with World Links as Senior Education Technology Specialist supporting teacher professional development programs in S.E Asia region.
Previously, experience of over 20 years in the field of ICT and education. During this period, Deepika worked with ICT education companies in India, in the areas of curriculum design, content creation, instructional design of learning products and teacher development. Her audiences have spanned students, teachers and professionals across schools (including faculty of less-served schools), universities and the corporate sector. She has supported several programs for integrating ICT in the curriculum of educational institutions. Other notable experiences include design, development and delivery of workshops for adult literacy programs (in partnership with the Open Learning Agency, COL Canada) as well as assessment of ICT training effectiveness in schools.
Deepika is also pursuing a Masters in Education Technology from University of British Columbia, Canada and is inspired by the potential of ICT to significantly leapfrog the delivery of education in less privileged schools.
As President of Korea Education and Research Information Service, Dr. Dukhoon Kwak is responsible for Korea’s national ICT in Education plan and related initiatives. His primary focus is on enhancing Korea’s position as a leader in ICT in education by increasing global cooperation with partners in this area around the world.
He also serves as a member of the Communication and Information Commission at Korean National Commission for UNESCO, for the White Paper Committee for Bridging the Digital Divide with the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunities; and as chair of Standards Committee of Standards for Information Technology for Learning, Education and Training (ITLET) with the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards.
Prior to joining KERIS in June 2008, Dr. Kwak has worked as a professor of Computer Science for Korea National Open University since 1983. With more than 2 decades in the educational development field, he contributed to Korea’s e-Learning and ICT in education through his extensive research and projects. Dr. Kwak has received numerous honors and awards throughout his extensive careers, including the Korean presidential Award for Contribution to Informatization in 1997.
Dr. Kwak received a bachelor's degree in Natural Resource Engineering from Seoul National University in 1976, an M.S. in Computer Science from Yeonsei University in 1981,and his Ph.D. in Computer Science form Korea University in 1990.
Dr. Fengchun Miao, Programme Specialist of ICT in Education, UNESCO Bangkok. Fengchun Miao is the UNESCO Bangkok’s ICT and Education Programme Specialist, serving as the Chief of ICT in Education Unit of UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education. Before joining UNESCO Bangkok, he was chairing the National Research Centre for Computer Education, MOE, China. In that capacity, he was responsible for the development of ICT in education policy and ICT standards. Main achievements during that period include
National Guideline of Curriculum Reform for China K-12 Schools, ICT Curriculum Standards for Students (K-12)
,
China Educational Technology Standard for Teachers
, five (5) series of ICT textbooks for students, two national educational websites, and one online ICT in education community
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He was also the project officer of the national programme of
Promotion of ICT Use in Teaching and Learning Practices of New Curriculum
.
Gwang-Jo Kim is the former Deputy Minister of Education and Human Resources Development in South Korea. As a top-elite leading the Ministry of Education since 1980, he has dedicated his entire professional career to working on the design and implementation of educational policies. He is well known for his pioneering work on “Education Reform”(1995), “Teachers Policy Reform”(1998), and “HRD Policy Reform”(2004), which became respectively a turning point in the modern Korean educational history. Especially, the Education Reform launched in 1995 proposed Korean people to shift the conventional perspective in education from the “supplier-centered education” to the “customer-centered learning.” During 2001-3, he had also served in the World Bank (HDNED) as a senior education specialist mainly working in the Latin American and Caribbean Region. He has a Ed.D. in Economics of Education from Harvard University and a BA in Law from Korea University.
Jongwon (Jon) Seo is a researcher for Korea Education & Research Information Service (KERIS). He has been involved in ICT in education initiatives conducting u-Learning model school pilot projects, evaluating and monitoring the use of ICT in K-12 schools, research on the effectiveness of an ICT-based learning environment, developing LMS and ubiquitous-based classrooms for K-12 schools, and ICT in education policy studies. He has also participated in collaborative projects in the area of ICT for capacity building with international organizations such as APEC, UNESCO, and the World Bank. Jongwon joined KERIS in 2004 starting out as a researcher to develop global cooperative projects in the area of e-Learning. He graduated from the University of Nebraska, Omaha with a Masters degree in MIS. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Korea University in educational technology.
Keiko Takei
is a Junior Professional Associate at the World Bank Institute, Knowledge and Human Development Division, Education team. With her experience in education, as both primary school and language teacher, Ms. Takei has been working for the Sector Wide Education Reform and Post Basic Education programs. Ms. Takei specializes in Science and Math Technology Innovation (SMTI) and contributes as a course designer and content developer. Ms. Takei also contributes to country case studies on ICT in education in Namibia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Education in Japan, a Masters of Development Administration in Political Science/Economics with a concentration on Education Leadership in the US and, currently registering for the Doctoral program of International Education from University of Sussex in UK.
Lynn Nolan’s background encompasses extensive professional experience in the field of education locally, nationally, and globally. She presently serves as the Senior Director of Education Leadership for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). In this role she leads the Professional Development Services, Research and Evaluation, and Books and Courseware Teams. She also serves as the National Workshop Chair for ISTE’s National Education Computing Conference and the Program Chair for the International Conference on Teaching and Learning with Technology, jointly organized by ISTE and the Singapore Ministry of Education.
Dr. Nolan has extensively published and presented at US and international conferences, including a recent presentation in Singapore at the Third International Conference on Educational Technology in the Microsoft Partners in Learning strand. She currently serves as the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Project Director where she is leading the refresh of ISTE’s NETS. Lynn participated in the development of UNESCO’s ICT Competency Standards for Teachers and represented ISTE, a collaborative partner with UNESCO in this initiative, at the Standards Launch in London in January, 2008. Dr. Nolan has advised on the integration of ICT standards in schools, districts, and states in the U.S. and other countries, including Brazil, China, and India. She is facilitating ICT standards development and launched the first phase of this project with the Ministry of Education in May, 2007 in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
Lynn’s doctoral dissertation, “Forward to the Future: A Delphi Study of the Future of Education” has provided her with insight into the direction of technology’s role in the schools of the future. The Delphi panelists that worked with Lynn as a part of her research were ten renowned experts in the future of education representing all geographic locations of the United States. This provided her with an understanding of the possibilities that educators may look forward to in the next few years. She mentored a doctoral student Spring, 2006 to replicate and extend her research study to consider new perceptions a decade later.
Michael Trucano, Sr. ICT & Education Specialist, The World Bank Mike Trucano is the World Bank's Senior ICT and Education Policy Specialist, serving as the Bank's focal point on the topic within the education sector. He previously served as the ICT and Education Specialist at infoDev, the multi-donor 'ICT knowledge shop' housed within the World Bank's Global ICT Department (GICT), where coordinated activities related to information and communication technologies and the Millennium Development Goals ("ICTs for MDGs"), especially as they related to education. He also led infoDev's work exploring the use of various low-cost ICT devices to meet developmental objectives in the social sectors. Highlights during his time at infoDev include Knowledge Maps: ICT and Education (what we know, and what we don't, about ICT use in education in developing countries ), over 75 country-level surveys of ICT and education in Africa and the Caribbean and the ICT in Education Toolkit for Policymakers (with UNESCO, used in 27 countries to date). Mike brings experience working in a variety of capacities with on-the-ground ICT/education initiatives in several regions, including feasibility studies, evaluation and assessment, teacher training and professional development, appropriate technologies and targeted policy advice, especially related to uses of ICTs in education and community telecentres. He joined the World Bank Group in 1997, first with the IFC, and then serving on the Education and ICT for education teams at WBI where he was a core member of the team that developed the World Links for Development Program.
Paige Kuni, Global Manager of K-12 education for Intel’s Corporate Affairs Group, is responsible for the Intel® Teach Program, a worldwide professional development initiative that helps educators integrate computer technology effectively and promote 21st century skills in their classrooms. This research-proven program has trained almost 6 million teachers in over 45 countries. Under her management, the curriculum remains on the leading edge of education needs and provides a series of innovative teacher productivity and thinking tools, free for educators at
www.intel.com/education
.
As the Chair of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills Board, Ms. Kuni leads a coalition of business, education and policymakers that has emerged as the leading advocacy organization focused on infusing 21st century skills into education. In addition, she has recently been named to the Steering Committee in the development of the NAEP Technology Literacy Assessment. The committee is comprised of experts who are in a position to define the new framework and test specifications for the 2012 NAEP assessment through funding from the US Department of Education and the National Assessment Governing Board. She is also a member of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) advisory board on the update of ISTE’s National Education Technology standards for students, teachers and administrators.
Ms. Kuni holds a Bachelors of Science in Biology from Willamette University and a Masters Degree in Science Education from Portland State University. She has over a decade of experience successfully envisioning, launching, scaling, and evaluating education programs. She sees technology as a critical tool to access, organize and analyze information, and to communicate and collaborate with others to create innovations that add value to peoples’ lives – and is a focal point, aligning experts from all fields toward her vision of 21st century teaching and learning.
Dr. Robert Kozma is an independent consultant operating out of San Francisco, California, and an Emeritus Director and Principal Scientist at the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International in Menlo Park, California. His research expertise includes technology policy in support of education reform and economic and social development, technology assessment and evaluation in education reform, media theory, the impact of technology on cognition, the application of technology to improve teaching and learning, particularly in science, and the design of advanced interactive multimedia systems. He has consulted with the Ministries of Education in Egypt, Thailand, Singapore, Norway, and Chile and with Intel Corporation, OECD, UNESCO, and the Ford Foundation on the use of technology to improve educational systems. Most recently, he provided pro-bono consulting for the Millennium Villages Project, a UN-sanctioned project at Columbia University, on the role that ICT can play in supporting poverty reduction and development in Africa. At SRI, Dr. Kozma directed a study of 174 technology-based classroom innovations in 28 countries, sponsored by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). In all, he directed or co-directed more than 25 research and development projects including the evaluation of a World Bank technology-based innovation program in developing countries (World Links), research and evaluation of technology-based learning in science, and the evaluation of a national virtual high school program. For 20 years prior to his position at SRI, he was a professor and research scientist at the University of Michigan. He has authored or co-authored more than 75 academic articles, chapters, encyclopedia entries, and books
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He has given more than 100 presentations and invited addresses at national and international conferences. He began his career as a primary mathematics teacher in the inner city of Detroit.
Ronald Kim, Senior Operations Officer, The World Bank Ron Kim is currently a member of the Knowledge for Development Program at the World Bank Institute. He has been involved in various World Bank initiatives, including: co-founding and managing the Development Forum (the Bank's e-discussion facility); supporting and coordinating knowledge management efforts across the Bank and with clients and partners in a number of countries; writing book chapters and articles on innovation policies, knowledge management, and ICT and leadership in Africa; organizing and managing courses, workshops, conferences and research projects on the Knowledge Economy, agricultural innovation, research communications, knowledge management, ICT in education, and e-government; managing an ICT in education project for secondary schools in East Asia; and contributing to the design of higher education projects in Cambodia and Vietnam. Before joining the Bank in 1998, Ron worked at an NGO specializing in higher education reform in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union as a visiting lecturer, program officer, and director of recruitment.
Ruwan Salgado is the Executive Director of World Links. World Links is an innovative and award-winning not-for-profit organization that promotes the use of ICT in the classroom and new approaches to learning to bring opportunity and hope to disadvantaged youth around the world, primarily through its time-tested teacher professional development program.
Mr. Salgado has experience in management, business development, operations and finance with both not-for-profit and for-profit organizations. He also has significant international development experience having spent many years working as a management consultant in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Immediately prior to joining World Links, Mr. Salgado spent seven years in management and financial roles in the field of education helping to manage a private equity funded company that provides teacher professional development for American primary and secondary schools, as well as a non-profit organization that focused on U.S. primary and secondary educational reform. He has experience in privatizations and public-private partnerships and was a consultant to a venture capital firm. As a management consultant in and outside of the United States, he has also worked with senior corporate executives and government officials in a wide range of industries including oil, mining, healthcare, capital markets, and agribusiness.
Mr. Salgado joined the staff of World Links in March 2007 and became its Executive Director on October 1st, 2007.
Mr. Salgado is a member of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and was formerly a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Mr. Salgado has an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the University of Chicago and an M.Phil. in Economics from Oxford University. He received both a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Engineering from Swarthmore College in the USA. Mr. Salgado spent a year and a half of his childhood in Seoul, Korea.
Ms Shafika Isaacs is currently an independent consultant on ICTs for Development in Africa.
She was formerly the Schools Executive at Mindset Network (
www.mindset.co.za
*) and the founding Executive Director of SchoolNet Africa (
www.schoolnetafrica.org
*), an NGO which promotes learning and teaching through the use of ICTs in African schools. She worked as a Senior Program Officer, with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)’s Acacia Program which promotes development in Africa through the use of ICTs. She was also the Director of the Trade Union Research Project (TURP), a labour research organisation where she specialised in research, worker education and writing popular publications on globalisation, gender issues and the impact of changing technologies on the labour market.
She completed an M Sc in Science and Technology Policy at the University of Sussex. In 2003 she was a finalist for the World Technology Network Award.
She has published a number of papers on a range of issues relating to the ICT and education in Africa, including an InfoDev
Survey on ICTs in Education in Africa
and the
Monitoring and Evaluation of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) eSchools Demonstration Project
.
She has served on a number of Boards and Committees of organisations and initiatives related to ICTs for Development and ICTs for the promotion of gender equality. Currently she serves on the Expert International Panel of the Consortium of School Networking in the USA, the Editorial Board of the
International Journal on ICTs and Human Development
, as advisor to the Open Education Resources project of the Global Development Gateway and a Board member of SchoolNet South Africa and SchoolNet Africa.
She is South African by birth.
Tilden Wu is the Education Policy and Program Manager for Asia Pacific at Intel Corporation. He is responsible for working with the ecosystem and Ministries of Education to facilitate the adoption of 1:1 computing on Intel platforms for K12 and Higher Education by setting and executing strategic direction in Sales, Marketing, Engineering and Technology and driving joint activities in Asia Pacific.
Tilden joined Intel in 2001 starting as the product manager for the Desktop and Mobile segments and then as Strategic Relationship Manager in NYC working with Wall Street and other financial services firms. In 2004 he left the USA to take the position of Financial Services Sector manager for Asia Pacific for Intel. In 2006 Tilden held the position of Asia Pacific SAP business development programs manager, responsible for working with Intel-SAP ecosystem to drive the growth of SAP applications on Intel platforms, now boasting 3 out of every 4 SAP installations in the world.
Tilden was educated at University of Colorado where he gained a Degree in Electrical & Computing Engineering.
Victoria is the Executive Director of the Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development, a non-governmental organization based in Metro Manila, Philippines. She has been involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of various projects for schools and communities in the Philippines that use technology to improve learning and to broaden access to education. For the past eight years she has worked closely with education policymakers, administrators, and teachers in crafting national and sub-national level ICT policy and plans. Victoria has done similar work in the region for ASEAN and for the World Links Southeast Asia Program.
William A. Swope is corporate vice president and general manager of Intel's Corporate Affairs Group and is responsible for ensuring Intel's continued focus on corporate social responsibility as an integral part of Intel's corporate strategy. In this role, he leads the company's global education and citizenship programs, as well as its community and corporate contribution activities and the Intel Foundation. His team is charged with driving policy, education, and community agendas that effect positive change around the world.
Since joining Intel in 1979, Swope has held numerous roles including manufacturing technology planning, strategic product planning and product management. Swope was director of Digital Enterprise Brand Management, and prior to that he was general manager of the Software and Solutions Group (SSG), reporting to the president and chief operating officer of Intel. In that capacity he managed the software products and enabling efforts within SSG. From 1993 to 1995, Swope was the general manager of the Intel® Pentium® Pro processor team. Swope was promoted to vice president in 1996 and corporate vice president in 2003.
Inspired by Intel's commitment to corporate social responsibility, Swope is honored to be the steward of the company's 40-year legacy of support for education, environment and the community. His responsibilities span from the Intel Foundation to Intel's global education programs to its Volunteer Matching Grants and the Intel Involved employee volunteerism programs. Swope is also a frequent keynote speaker at global forums such as the World Economic Forum, eLearning Africa, and the UN Global Alliance on ICT and Development. Swope received his bachelor's degree in applied physics from Tufts College. He earned his master's degree in management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Swope serves on the board of directors for Rim Semiconductor, Inc.
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