Here you will find links to most of the country specific information provided by this site regarding Mongolia. You may also want to do a search by clicking on "ICT search" in the sidebar, or a search in one of our databases. Note that most of the projects have a regional impact and therefore are not necessarily listed here.

Information about Mongolia

• Mongol Educational Portal
• Mongolia's ICT Vision 2010
• ICT development in Mongolia 2000–2003
• General Trends in the Use of ICT's in Technology: Mongolia
• Mongolia: ICT Use in Education

Projects

• Training and Professional Development of Teachers in Mongolia
  With the goal of enabling teachers to use ICT to enhance the quality of teaching and learning, the UNESCO ICT in Education Programme has implemented a number of regional, sub-regional and national projects. This section lists those projects and outlines their activities and achievements.
  
  
• Mongolian Information Development Association (MIDAS)
  The vision of the MIDAS NGO is to create an information-based society in Mongolia that will improved the quality of life of citizens and intensified all economic sectors of the country by developing Information and Communications Technology sector as a one of the competitive sector.

• ICT for Innovating Rural Education of Mongolia (IIREM)
  The ICT for Innovating rural education of Mongolia (IIREM) project has been developed to establish a replicable model for using ICT to bring education content, modern pedagogy and information to poor rural schools and communities.
  
  
• Distance Education in Mongolia
  During July and August, 2004, the World Bank, in cooperation with Mongolia’s Ministry of Science, Technology, Education and Culture, sent a mission to Mongolia to explore the potential of low-cost rural distance learning (RDL).
  
  
• International Development Research Center: Mongolia
  Many Information and Communication Technology (ICT) developments have taken place in Mongolia since 2006. The fibre optic cable backbone has been extended by more than 4,000 kilometres and the overall international bandwidth has more than doubled. Various types of ICT services are now available and service providers compete not only in network coverage, but also in service delivery.

Further resources

• On-Line News Source for updated information on Mongolia and Education
  
  
• Learning in the Gobi Desert: Non-Formal Education for Nomadic Women
  This paper provides a case study, grounded in practice, of the first open and distance learning project for non-formal education in Mongolia, a developing country undergoing rapid transition in the 1990s from a command to a market economy and from communism to a multi-party democracy.
  
  
• UN Helps Land-Locked Mongolia to Tap the Internet for Development
  Mongolia has seen its mobile phone market growing at a remarkable rate of over 100% per year since it embarked on telecommunications reform a few years ago. The land-locked country also has an ambitious e-Mongolian strategy, using information and communication technology (ICT) to integrate more closely into the regional and global economy.
  
  
• Ninth National Workshop for Teacher Educators
  Convened in Ulaanbaatar, in cooperation with the Mongolia National Commission for UNESCO and the Mongolia State University of Education, this workshop brought together around 30 teacher educators from across the country.