Application of M-Gov to Provision of Education for all in Developing Nations

Abstract

Due to advances in wireless and mobile technology, a lot of applications have been developed in the areas of health, entertainment, education, agriculture, education among other to harness the benefit of this technology and to provide services closer to the users. In addition, this technology enables the government and private sectors to deliver, manage, organize and disseminate services to public in an more efficient and economical manner. Providing quality and free for all education that is readily accessible is critical in developing countries where most citizens live on less than a 1 USD a day. In these countries, most learners trade off time for education for casual work to earn a living. In such a case, the learners are denied right of access to quality and free education. It is therefore important to illustrate how education managers could adapt mobile and wireless technology to facilitate, control and manage capacity development towards the achieving education for all In this paper, we explore the benefits of mobile governance (m-Gov) of educational resources as a tool to deliver free, quality and accessible education. The paper argues that such an ICT application needs to incorporate all the education stakeholders to attain accountability and transparency on provision of education services. The paper also illustrates the key concepts in implementation of the argued ICT application i.e., m-Gov.