The need for ICTs in primary education is important as it creates educational opportunities on a wide scale for those students who are unable to afford traditional classroom teaching modules due to cost ineffectiveness, teacher unavailability, and some other factors.
Anant Mishra
Anant Mishra is a former youth representative United Nations.Almost 4 years of experience, he has served in number of committees including United Nations Conference for Trade and Development and Economic and Social Council primarily focusing on international trade, education, finance, economics. food crisis and disputes. Currently he is serving as State Convener - Chhattisgarh for a nation wide think tank Centre for Education Growth and Research, New Delhi. He is also serving as a mentor & member of the organising committee Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2014.Prior to this he was a foreign affairs columnist for bureaucracy today and economy analyst for business insider.Currently he is an editor for foreign affairs with political mirror, columnist for the business digest and business world. He is strategic analyst and author for Indian defence review. Author for International Relations Youth Ki Awaaz and iReporter CNN. He is also an author for Indian Economic Review, Delhi School of Economics.
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Strengthening Global Progress Toward Sustainable Development Through Innovation In Science And Technology
Debates on how best to promote sustainable and inclusive development are incomplete without a full consideration of issues of science, technology and innovation (STI).
Development is constantly fueled by innovation. The Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) often has coinciding and mutually reinforcing goals with other UN bodies; for example, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is mandated to reduce poverty using sustainable industrial development.
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Integrating Information And Communication Technologies Into Sustainable Development And Education Programs In Less Economically Developed Countries (LEDCs)
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) outlines within its Human Development Report that development focuses on four measurements of achievements: health, education, income, and lastly the dimensions of participation and empowerment. Within this concept of development, there has been a rising merge towards the emergence of an “information society” as a developed society, where information sharing and the application of knowledge are easily accessible and permissible.
