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Information and communication technologies must be harnessed to support
Education for All goals at an affordable cost. They have great potential for knowledge dissemination, effective learning and the development of more efficient education services. To be effective, especially in developing countries, ICT should be combined with more traditional technologies such as books and radios and be more extensively applied to the training of teachers.

This report is a compilation of the presentations of the “International Workshop on Mobile Learning for Expanding Educational Opportunities” held in Tokyo, Japan, from 16 to 20 May 2005.

Recent work at infoDev created a “Knowledge Map” of what is known – and what isn’t – about information and communication technology (ICT) use in education.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been adopted by the United Nations as the key development targets for the first part of the 21st century. All nations are “on board.”