The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) has revealed the names of fourteen projects selected as the 2013 WISE Awards Finalists. The Radiophone projectby Sesame Workshop Initiatives India Pvt. Ltd has been selected as of the finalists. SWIIPLC, a for profit organisation, based in New Delhi, Indiahas brought cultural and education services to India’s most hard to reach migrant population.
Hailing from from around the globe – from India to China, from Uganda to the United Kingdom – the selected projects represent the world’s best work in education by non-governmental organizations, charity groups, cultural institutions and the private sector and demonstrate real-world solutions to today’s most difficult education challenges. Created by WISE in 2009, the WISE Awards program recognizes innovative approaches to solving real-world obstacles to education, with the objective of replicating these approaches in other parts of the world.
TheRadiophoneproject by Sesame Workshop Initiatives India Pvt. Ltd offers a unique, sustainable financial and educational model that has helped serve over 1.4 million people in 10 communities across India.The Radiophone project uses technology to provide literacy and numeracy skills, thus bringing quality early learning experiences to disadvantaged children in India.
Selected by a jury of international education experts, projects showcase unique way of solvingsome of today’s most difficult issues in education. This year’s Finalists demonstrate that today’s education barriers have no boarders, as projects respond to global issues such as access to education and employability. Projects present innovative solutions, such asutilising new technologies to teach native language skills to primary students in Morocco, or using trucks to teach essential ICT skills to rural students via a Mobile Solar Computer Classroom in Uganda.
H.E. Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali Al-Thani, Ph.D., Chairman of WISE and Chairman of the WISE Awards Jury states: “This year’s WISE Awards Finalist projects are truly inspiring in their creativity and commitment to addressing challenges in education. The projects are from all over the world and are extremely diverse, yet the obstacles they are working to overcome can be found in many places and relate to some of the most difficult problems facing education today. The WISE Awards identify projects that are producing results and showcase them as good practices for others to replicate – promoting change, community by community.”
Finalists were selected based on a strict set of criteria including a project’s ability to show innovative thinking, demonstrate a concrete impact on education within a community and an ability to be replicated in other parts of the world.
“We are thrilled to be recognized for our work and to be selected as a finalist for the 2013 WISE Awards,”stated Sashwati Banerjee, MD, Sesame Workshop Initiatives India Pvt. Ltd“We believe that the Radiophone is playing a critical role in facilitating young Indian children’s basic academic skills as well as life skills, while celebrating India’s rich cultural diversity, in order to promote their overall learning, health, and development. Through this recognition, and WISE’s global platform, we hope that our work will inspire other communities around the world to implement effective, practical solutions that will positively impact the world’s future leaders.”
Of the fourteen finalists, a jury of international education experts will choose six winning projects which will be announced in September and showcased at the 2013 WISE Summit in Doha, taking place October 29-31, 2013 and will receive 20,000 USD.
For further information about WISE and the WISE Awards, please go to www.wise-qatar.orgor visit the WISE Awards blog: http://awardsblog.wise-qatar.org/.
To learn more about the Radiophone project please visit: Opening lines of communication to life-saving learning in marginalized communities; Advancing education at the speed of technology
About the WISE Awards:
Since 2009 the WISE Awards have identified, showcased and promoted innovative projects in education around the world. Over 2,000 applications have been received from 136 countries, resulting in 24 WISE Awards winners and 136 finalists (including the current 14 of 2013). WISE Award winning projects have come from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ghana, India, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, and the USA. They are progressively building a diverse and inspiring community of educational innovators which is having a growing impact on education locally and around the world.
About the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE):
Inaugurated in 2009 by Qatar Foundation on the initiative of its Chairperson, Her Highness Sheikha Mozabint Nasser, WISE is the only international initiative for innovation in education that stimulates collaboration and new approaches among diverse sectors – recognizing cutting-edge practices and helping to share them on an international scale. WISE is driven by the belief that the positive contribution to education can be enhanced through innovation in three priority areas: Learning for All, Learning for Life and Learning Anytime, Anywhere. To drive international collaboration in education, WISE has developed a programme of year-round activities (the WISE Prize for Education, the WISE Awards, WISE publications, Learners' Voice), and includes an annual international Summit that is a unique occasion for thought-leaders, decision-makers and practitioners to come together and share concrete solutions to the challenges in education today.
About Radiophone:
Radiophone (www.seasameworkshopindia.com) (New Delhi, India)
Radiophone uses a combination of community radio and telephone systems to deliver literacy, numeracy and healthy habits to the highly mobile migrant community. This project provides a low cost technology-based solution that combines entertainment with education. Since 2011 it has reached 1.4 million people and received 50,000 calls across ten community radio stations with 12 percent of people surveyed reporting that they had changed their lifestyle within three months of exposure to the show. The program initially starting in one community radio station in Gurgaon, Haryana and has now been expanded to include nine other community radio stations.
Hailing from from around the globe – from India to China, from Uganda to the United Kingdom – the selected projects represent the world’s best work in education by non-governmental organizations, charity groups, cultural institutions and the private sector and demonstrate real-world solutions to today’s most difficult education challenges. Created by WISE in 2009, the WISE Awards program recognizes innovative approaches to solving real-world obstacles to education, with the objective of replicating these approaches in other parts of the world.
TheRadiophoneproject by Sesame Workshop Initiatives India Pvt. Ltd offers a unique, sustainable financial and educational model that has helped serve over 1.4 million people in 10 communities across India.The Radiophone project uses technology to provide literacy and numeracy skills, thus bringing quality early learning experiences to disadvantaged children in India.
Selected by a jury of international education experts, projects showcase unique way of solvingsome of today’s most difficult issues in education. This year’s Finalists demonstrate that today’s education barriers have no boarders, as projects respond to global issues such as access to education and employability. Projects present innovative solutions, such asutilising new technologies to teach native language skills to primary students in Morocco, or using trucks to teach essential ICT skills to rural students via a Mobile Solar Computer Classroom in Uganda.
H.E. Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali Al-Thani, Ph.D., Chairman of WISE and Chairman of the WISE Awards Jury states: “This year’s WISE Awards Finalist projects are truly inspiring in their creativity and commitment to addressing challenges in education. The projects are from all over the world and are extremely diverse, yet the obstacles they are working to overcome can be found in many places and relate to some of the most difficult problems facing education today. The WISE Awards identify projects that are producing results and showcase them as good practices for others to replicate – promoting change, community by community.”
Finalists were selected based on a strict set of criteria including a project’s ability to show innovative thinking, demonstrate a concrete impact on education within a community and an ability to be replicated in other parts of the world.
“We are thrilled to be recognized for our work and to be selected as a finalist for the 2013 WISE Awards,”stated Sashwati Banerjee, MD, Sesame Workshop Initiatives India Pvt. Ltd“We believe that the Radiophone is playing a critical role in facilitating young Indian children’s basic academic skills as well as life skills, while celebrating India’s rich cultural diversity, in order to promote their overall learning, health, and development. Through this recognition, and WISE’s global platform, we hope that our work will inspire other communities around the world to implement effective, practical solutions that will positively impact the world’s future leaders.”
Of the fourteen finalists, a jury of international education experts will choose six winning projects which will be announced in September and showcased at the 2013 WISE Summit in Doha, taking place October 29-31, 2013 and will receive 20,000 USD.
For further information about WISE and the WISE Awards, please go to www.wise-qatar.orgor visit the WISE Awards blog: http://awardsblog.wise-qatar.org/.
To learn more about the Radiophone project please visit: Opening lines of communication to life-saving learning in marginalized communities; Advancing education at the speed of technology
About the WISE Awards:
Since 2009 the WISE Awards have identified, showcased and promoted innovative projects in education around the world. Over 2,000 applications have been received from 136 countries, resulting in 24 WISE Awards winners and 136 finalists (including the current 14 of 2013). WISE Award winning projects have come from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ghana, India, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, and the USA. They are progressively building a diverse and inspiring community of educational innovators which is having a growing impact on education locally and around the world.
About the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE):
Inaugurated in 2009 by Qatar Foundation on the initiative of its Chairperson, Her Highness Sheikha Mozabint Nasser, WISE is the only international initiative for innovation in education that stimulates collaboration and new approaches among diverse sectors – recognizing cutting-edge practices and helping to share them on an international scale. WISE is driven by the belief that the positive contribution to education can be enhanced through innovation in three priority areas: Learning for All, Learning for Life and Learning Anytime, Anywhere. To drive international collaboration in education, WISE has developed a programme of year-round activities (the WISE Prize for Education, the WISE Awards, WISE publications, Learners' Voice), and includes an annual international Summit that is a unique occasion for thought-leaders, decision-makers and practitioners to come together and share concrete solutions to the challenges in education today.
About Radiophone:
Radiophone (www.seasameworkshopindia.com) (New Delhi, India)
Radiophone uses a combination of community radio and telephone systems to deliver literacy, numeracy and healthy habits to the highly mobile migrant community. This project provides a low cost technology-based solution that combines entertainment with education. Since 2011 it has reached 1.4 million people and received 50,000 calls across ten community radio stations with 12 percent of people surveyed reporting that they had changed their lifestyle within three months of exposure to the show. The program initially starting in one community radio station in Gurgaon, Haryana and has now been expanded to include nine other community radio stations.
