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 16, 2009
Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser AL-MISSNED, Chair of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, officially opened this morning, the premiere edition of the World Innovation Summit for Education – WISE, an initiative of Qatar Foundation.
Addressing 1,000 of the world’s pre-eminent opinion leaders, Her Highness delivered her vision on education, the answer to the challenges posed today by globalization focusing on the theme of the Summit “Global Education: Working Together for Sustainable Achievements”:
“Innovation in education, which is the focus of this Summit should become an achievable and executable process. It should be at the heart of the education which is the
force which exerts human energy and guides it wisely for the purpose of expanding human intelligence and creativity to serve the objective of just and equitable human societies.
“Therefore this Summit requires us to debate deeply and discuss a series of issues at the core of the right to education in order to draft an agreement on which we can build our next steps”, concluded Her Highness Sheikha Mozah.
As Guest of Honour, Mrs Irina BOKOVA, newly appointed UNESCO Director-General, chose to address WISE worldwide community of opinion leaders and stakeholders, for her first official intervention abroad.
Dr. Abdulla bin Ali AL-THANI, Chairman of WISE and Qatar Foundation’s Vice-President of Education, engaged WISE attendees to make the most of the unique dialogue opportunity that WISE brings. During his address, Dr. AL-THANI expressed hope for meaningful debates that will lead to global collaboration to help identify the strategic educational priorities for the upcoming years.
Her Highness Sheikha Mozah opens WISE 09
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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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