Dr. Andrew Deonarine, a resident in the UBC School of Population and Public Health (SPPH), has won The Economist magazine and Innocentive’s 21st century Cyber-Schools Challenge for his plan for a cell phone-based educational system.
EduCell can be used to educate large segments of a given population with minimal infrastructure, finances and manpower. The Challenge asked participants to address the problem of providing educational opportunities to the tens of millions of school-age students in developing nations around the world.
The prize package includes $10,000 and a trip to New York to present his winning plan at The Economist’s Ideas Economy: Human Potential Event on Sept. 15-16. His winning plan will be featured in an upcoming issue of The Economist.
Deonarine completed his Master of Health Sciences through the School of Population and Public Health in 2009 as part of the Community Medicine Residency program at SPPH.
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