The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) is an initiative of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, launched in 2009 under the aegis of Her Highness Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser.
Over and above the annual Summit, WISE is an international initiative and platform for a multitude of established and new educational actors to collaborate proactively all year round.
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November 18, 2009
Emergent, revolutionary technologies such as open, accessible, peer-to-peer and social media platforms have an influential role to play in how conventional education is both taught and learned, the World Innovation Summit for Education – WISE, has heard today.
An initiative of Qatar Foundation , WISE this morning hosted a plenary session dedicated to Innovation, featuring a panel of world-leading experts.
Addressing the Summit, Co-founder of Twitter, Biz Stone, spoke of how, as a very simple service of rudimentary communications, Twitter has become a real-time educational tool where users help and inform each other, citing earthquakes, fuel shortages and episodes of geo-political unrest as prime examples.
“It doesn’t matter how many servers we add to the network; ultimately, we hope Twitter will be a triumph of humanity, not a triumph of technology,” he added.
Professor Sugata Mitra, Professor of Education, Newcastle University, and the inspiration behind the renowned movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, declared that “teachers are now no longer required to be repositories of knowledge”, adding that children can learn to teach themselves and solve often complex matters if equipped and empowered with the necessary technological tools.
Dr. Tidu Maini, Executive Chairman of Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) said that the fast pace of development of the innovation society and the widespread distribution of ICT are, in themselves, not a sufficiently sustainable educational model. He added that research-led education is the extra driver that can make an important difference if the benefits of connectivity are to be mobilized
Dr. Maini added: “There is a need to create a platform of structured education combined with a new technologically-based infrastructure which can break bureaucracy and boundaries.”
Day three of the Summit concludes with a series of breakout sessions before a final closing session which will allow the international participants to deliver a declaration defining educational priorities for WISE.
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September 21, 2010
The WISE Initiative: Building bridges with other education-related forums; The WISE Awards; A series of educational documentaries in partnership with Euronews; and the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in Doha, Qatar, 7-9 December 2010 Doha, Qatar, 21 September 2010: Since its inauguration in 2009, the World Innovation Summit for Education – WISE – has [...]
November 18, 2009
The closing plenary session of the first World Innovation Summit for Education – WISE has produced a number of ground-breaking outcomes that signal the beginning of a new era in global collaboration on education. WISE concluded with a declaration of 10 core education priorities, an announcement of two initiatives and a renewed commitment to the three main areas of focus for WISE in the future.
November 18, 2009
Addressing the Summit, Co-founder of Twitter, Biz Stone, spoke of how, as a very simple service of rudimentary communications, Twitter has become a real-time educational tool where users help and inform each other, citing earthquakes, fuel shortages and episodes of geo-political unrest as prime examples.
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