Request for Data on Learning via Cell Phones + Research Timeline

The idea of delivering ANY education via cell phone is new. There are few good studies on this idea. Aker's study on delivering literacy training via cell phones in Niger is one.

I am gathering studies to create a mini-meta analysis. Thanks to the sharing habits of the digital generation, data on the effectiveness of delivering education via mobile phones may be available faster than in previous years

Inspired by a bar in Jalalabad "beer for data" program, I am working to copy this at my local pub, the Dutch Goose. Click here for an interview on this program in Afghanistan.


The timeline for my research work is below (blank months below the dates indicate school work/finals).






[See here for a video on the results of some of this collaboration (Thank you for your help on this, Google!)]

Inspiration

A core problem in fragile states is:

Reformers at the top do not have foot soldiers at street level to deliver public goods to strengthen the state. I aim to discover discreet, effective means of delivering vocational training to new public servants.

It turns out, they all have cell phones; the police officers, teachers, health workers, everybody working in fragile states has cell phones.

Can this be of use?

I am spending the year at the School of Education at Stanford University to research and write a masters thesis on this topic.