Funding proposals/Mobile Learning/Strategy

Once we have a good idea of where we want to be, this section will be about how we intend to get there, leading to one or more proposals.

From the current state to the desired state:

Inputs

Foundation

• MobilED
• Dr Math: concept - more. Extend this to any field and add different services.
• Research base ...

Background Research

• Minimally Invasive Education e.g. Digital Doorway
• MobilED ...
• Human Language Technologies

Up and coming Technologies

Hardware

• OpenMoko-supported hardware.
• OLPC and variations ...

Software and Tools

• Mobiled v2 development site.
• python-mms - a python library for the creation, manipulation and encoding/decoding of MMS messages used in mobile phones.
• Mobiled v3: Entangled - a distributed hash table (DHT) based on Kademlia, as well as a peer-to-peer tuple space implementation.
• Mobiled v3 platform - development site (code only, currently hosted by UNICEF).
• OpenPhone: Dialogpalette - web site (includes the Asterisk TTS modules developed for the OpenPhone/MobilED projects).
• mobile and Embedded ubuntu
• OpenMoko
• Open Laszlo - a description.

Activities

Technology Development/Implementation

Describe the plan ... preferably an agile approach.

Research Programme

• methodology development
• local innovation
• learner innovation
• researching the pilots

Outputs

• Extensible platform for mobile access to a wide range of knowledge and learning resources
• Capability in developing communities to localise and produce knowledge resources
• etc.

Outcomes

• Platform for further mobile innovation in the developing world.

Impact

People in the developing world will be able to:

• access significant portions of the most prominent free/libre/open learning resources on the Internet
• localise those resources deemed useful in the local context
• collaboratively produce and share resources built to serve local needs
• participate in the global connected knowledge society.

Collaboration

Organisations

Organisation (and URL)	Contact	Role	Team Members
Meraka Institute	Mario Marais	MobilED framework and applications development, human language technologies, wireless access, educational (and other) applications innovation research.	Ktucker
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