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Educators pursue FutureGov Award
As nominations for the FutureGov Awards flood in to meet the deadline for entries, which has been extended to Thursday 9th September, competition is heating up in a new category introduced this year: education. So far, entries from Malaysia, Australia, and Singapore, are in the running to impress the judges.
Among the nominations is a rural smart schools programme in Malaysia, a paperless examinations project by Singapore’s Republic Polytechnic and a ‘digital education revolution’ in Australia.
The Pocket Education initiative, a mobile learning project that aims to bridge the education divide among Malaysia’s poorest communities by providing free learning resources via cheap mobile handsets, is also in the running.
Benhur Mesfin is the Director of Wireless Broadband for Motorola’s commercial, government and industrial solutions sector, the sponsor of the Education Organisation category. He says there are three things he is looking for in a winner: innovation, vision and execution.
“How innovative is the approach? What’s the vision for implementing the solution? And last but by no means least, how well has this vision been executed. It’s great to have good ideas. Making them happen is the hard part,” says Mesfin.
Mesfin says that technology is changing Asia’s education sector in both the developed and developing world, and he expects to see strong entries from both.
“Wireless LAN is bringing laptops, netbooks, smart phones and tablets into the classroom. Wi-Fi enabled interactive white boards are allowing what teachers write on the board to be emailed to students.”
“Wireless technology is also bridging the education divide by connecting buildings up to 60 kilometres apart in rural and remote areas,” says Mesfin.
The FutureGov Awards winners will be unveiled at the Gala Awards Dinner in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, on the final evening of the FutureGov Summit, on 15th October 2010.
There is still time to send in nominations by emailing enquiry@futuregov.net or by visiting the FutureGov Awards 2010 website.
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