Prepared by: Brian Gutterman Shahreen Rahman Jorge Supelano Laura Thies Mai Yang
Advisor: Ambassador Rafat Mahdi

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be an extremely powerful enabler in efforts to bring positive and sustainable development to countries around the globe. Today, almost a full decade into the 21st century, we live amidst an unprecedented revolution in the advancement of ICT. We are also, however, surrounded by widespread poverty, and social and economic inequalities are the norm. Considered as a powerful tool to promote social and economic development, education has become a primary focus of the recently forged Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD) community, especially in the Least Developed Countries. One way of ensuring equitable development targeted at the very poorest is through universal social protection, including education, health and income.i This paper aims to explain the current state of how ICT is being used in education and how it can better benefit current and future users.