News and Events
Talk @ World Bank
June 12, 2012 - Washington, D.C.
Paper on speech recognition for improving word reading scores @ ACM
CHI conference
May 5-10, 2012 - Austin, Texas
Cited in GSM Association's mWomen program's report titled
Striving and Surviving: Exploring the Lives of Women at the Bottom
of the Pyramid
Mar 2012
Conference keynote @ 4th
IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy
Enhanced Learning (DIGITEL)
Mar 27-30, 2012 - Takamatsu, Japan
Named a
2012 Computerworld Honors Program Laureate
Mar 15, 2012 -
CMU press release
Featured in
The Guardian
Mar 13, 2012 - United Kingdom
Featured in World Economic Forum report titled
Accelerating the Adoption of mLearning: A Call for Collective and
Collaborative Action
Feb 2012
Featured in book commissioned by Qatar Foundation for the World
Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), titled
Innovation in Education: Lessons From Pioneers Around The World
Nov 2, 2011 - Doha, Qatar
Talk @ Virginia Tech
Oct 27, 2011 - Blacksburg, Virginia
Featured @ Clinton Global Initiative
Sep 19-22, 2011 - New York City
Featured @ World Economic Forum's session on "Closing the Education
Gap"
Sep 16, 2011 - Dalian, China
Panel presentation @ USAID symposium on "Mobiles for Education for
Developing Countries"
Aug 18, 2011 - Bethesda, Maryland
Our summer interns from India have their work
featured in the press in Ahmedabad Mirror
Aug 2, 2011 - Ahmedabad, India
Commenced pilot of cellphone-based English literacy learning games
with 250 children in 4 low-cost private schools
Jul 29, 2011 - Hyderabad, India
Paper on technology for
gender empowerment in developing world @ ACM CHI conference
May 7-12, 2011 - Vancouver, Canada
Panel presentation @ "M is for Mobile" workshop organized by Sesame
Workshop India
Feb 28-Mar 2, 2011 - Delhi, India
Guest lecture @ Stanford University's School of Education
(Instructor: Dr. Shelley Goldman)
Feb 24, 2011 - Palo Alto, California
Guest lecture @ University of Pittsburgh's course on "Principles of
Global Health Informatics" (Instructor: Dr. Gerry Douglas)
Feb 9, 2011 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Talk on "catalyzing the ecosystem around mobile learning for
development" @ United States Agency for International Development
(USAID)
Dec 9, 2010 - Washington D.C.
Talk @ Sesame Workshop
Nov 5, 2010 - New York City
Panel presentation @ panel on "Social Networks and Innovations to
Achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America Through
Technology", at Third International Conference against Child Labor
organized by Telefónica Fundación
Nov 4, 2010 - Bogota, Colombia
Panel presentation @ panel on "Social and Ethical Issues in Education
Technologies" organized by UNESCO Chair in E-Learning at Open University
of Catalonia
Oct 7, 2010 - Barcelona, Spain
Conference keynote @ International Seminar on Mobile Learning and
Development organized by UNESCO Chair in E-Learning at Open University
of Catalonia
Oct 7, 2010 - Barcelona, Spain
Panel presentation @ panel on "Using Mobile Phones for Literacy:
Promising Practices and Research." organized by United States Agency for
International Development (USAID)
Sep 8, 2010 - Washington D.C. In
commemoration of International Literacy Day
Talk @ National University of Singapore
Aug 6, 2010 - Singapore
Talk @ Ateneo de Manila University
Jul 22, 2010 - Manila, The Philippines
Panel presentation @ Games for Change conference
May 25, 2010 - New York City
Talk @ United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
May 24, 2010 - New York City
Talk @ Northwestern University
Apr 29, 2010 - Chicago, Illinois
Talk @ The World Bank
Apr 12, 2010 - Washington D.C.
Guest lecture @ University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of
Education's graduate class on "Information Technologies for Education
and Development in Global Perspective" (Instructor: Dr. Daniel Wagner)
Mar 31, 2010 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Panel presentation @ Serious Games Summit, Games Developers
Conference
Mar 9, 2010 - San Francisco, California
Talk @ Nokia Research Center
Mar 5, 2010 - Palo Alto, California
Talk @ Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
Mar 23, 2009 - Washington D.C.
Talk @ American Institutes for Research (AIR), International
Development Division
Mar 23, 2009 - Washington D.C.
Andhra Pradesh government officials visit one of our pilot schools in rural India