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Optimizing ICT for Education, Sharing Practical Experiences from the Asia and Pacific Region: What Works, What Doesn't, and In What Circumstances

The conference will facilitate sharing a comprehensive range of current ICT in education issues, lessons learned, and best practices, including broader policy and strategy issues as well as innovative approaches, practical solutions, hands-on toolkits, cost implications, and sustainability of benefits of ICT in education.

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Participants from ADB’s DMCs will contribute to finalizing a practical guide to factors, which are important for increasing efficiency and effectiveness of ICT in education in their own country contexts.

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Conference Proceedings

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Participation will be by invitation only. ADB will sponsor confirmed delegates from ADB’s DMCs. Private sector participants and observers should shoulder their own expenses. There will be no conference registration fee.

The conference will bring together a wide range of stakeholders of development of ICT in education, including senior policy makers and planning officers, researchers, private sector stakeholders and NGOs, and development partners. Government delegates from ADB’s DMCs will include representatives of key national bodies and line ministries, which are contributing to ICT in education development and financing issues, such as ministries of education, ministries of ICT/telecommunication (or equivalent bodies responsible for national ICT policies and strategies), as well as ministries of finance. The conference will include participants also from development organizations, both public and private, who are involved in planning, implementing, and monitoring ICT in education policy and strategy developments or technology applications.

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• The conference will bring together experts and practitioners from around the world, and particularly from the Asia and Pacific Region. Resource speakers will include both public and private sector stakeholders. During the conference, a concurrent three days “ICT in education expo*” will take place, bringing experiences, products, and solutions from private sectors, NGOs, and public institutions. This will offer participants practical examples and the opportunity to interact with innovative approaches.



• In addition to plenary and panel sessions on broader ICT in education policy and strategy framework, the conference will include parallel sessions on specific ICT in education topics, such as regulatory, telecommunication, financing, and hardware issues; practical solutions for e teacher training and e-learning materials; specific country reports; and successful public & private partnerships.