POMI is interested in research and development of contextualized innovation especially more for marginalized and underserved students. At the same time, they are also interested in reverse innovation in education which stems from a condition where innovation from underserved communities (i.e., where technology exposure is scarce and there is absence of digital stimuli competition) make it to the mainstream in the developed region as an evolved and recontextualuzed form. Phenomenal mobile penetration in the developing region is creating profound dynamics and exciting opportunities for educational researchers. Therefore, POMI is engaged in a series of research projects that investigate interactional phenomena between technology contextualization and reverse innovation while examining various relevant constructs such as novelty effect, digital stimuli competition, stimuli isolation, scientific inquiry prompt, digital bridging effect, or globalization effect in behavioral, cognitive, and social dimensions. In short, we leverage POMI innovations and study a wide range of mobile interaction and learning models to achieve a broad objective of seeking and bolstering holistic education and empowerment opportunities in the 21st century learning environments worldwide.

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Homework Management System project (HMS) is one of  POMI (Programmable Open Mobil Internet) research and is an assessment/inquiry maker which allows students to quickly create own inquiries or homework items based on their own learning for the day.

All student-created multimedia inquiry items can be tagged by the generator, but rated by peers to indicate how relevant or useful the item is to their own learning. Obviously, teachers or facilitators could decide to review the student-generated homework items from the homework pool, weed out the ones that may not be relevant and leave only the ones that are highly useful or ones with highest student ratings.

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Seeds of Empowerment is non-profit arm of XRI, a 501(c) (3) organization, a spin-off of the Stanford University. 

XRI Global was formed with the vision to develop educational tools that provide sustainable empowerment to the underserved across the world. We provide a common platform for projects, initiatives and entrepreneurial ventures to converge and collectively work towards achieving our objective of empowering the underserved.

The Seeds of Empowerment team intends to develop and implement projects that will “plant seeds of hope and opportunity” for the underserved around the world. Our projects use cutting-edge technology to create self-sustaining business models that empower the powerless by improving their access to an education”.

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This project is part of the POMI (Programmable Open Mobile Internet for Social Cause) project. Skewer in Seoul (SiS) is a modified version of the computerized Tower of London game. SiS was designed to measure blind children’s executive function and to examine the relation between planning time, problem difficulty, and solution accuracy in the blind group and, for comparison, in a group of the sighted children. This mobile application aims to improve blind and visually impaired children critical thinking and executive functioning. SIS has been implemented in Malaysia and India so far and targets to access more underprevilaged children around the world.

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This platform is aiming to promote and develope mobile empowerment applications and games for 6.7 billion people on earth. In this mission, they focus on early literacy, numeracy, health, human rights, and self-empowerment strategy learning content development and best-practice sharing. The main goal of developers is to make education fun for learners of all ages.

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You can get Mail For Exchange from this site

http://www.businesssoftware.nokia.com/mail_for_exchange_downloads.php

This is the latest version, 2.7.  There are instructions on how to configure it, but I am happy to help, if there are any questions.

John

http:\\share.ovi.com is a free Nokia service that lets users upload pictures, videos and content to the web. This is a free service. I think the montly limit is 250 megabytes, which is quite a lot.  Users can create open and private channels to share with friends.

Nokia has a deskstand, and it could be used to hold the phone in a position so students could record a video while writing a problem.

http://europe.nokia.com/A4400118

You can update the Internet Tablet by installing the software from this page:

http://europe.nokia.com/A4678158

You can update the Nokia N95 8GB by install the Nokia Software Updater, which you can find here: http://europe.nokia.com/A4579163.  Instructions are on the same page.  If you want to save your existing settings on your phone (contacts, calendar, etc.) you can back your phone memory to the 8GB memory by opening the Memory application in the Tools > Utilities folder.  You open that application and from the options menu, you can back Back Up Phone Memory.