One example of that is the partnership between mobile operator Telenor Pakistan and Tameer Microfinance Bank.

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In Pakistan, through the project "Mobile Learning for Teachers" Nokia's Education Delivery application will help UNESCO to enable the delivery of high-quality educational materials to teachers who lack training and resources though mobile phones giving an opportunity to teachers to train themselves on the same level as professionally competent teachers.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

Some 89 percent of the adult population in Pakistan is unbanked and 62 percent use mobile-phone services, notes EasyPaisa spokesman Affan Haider.

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In Pakistan we are supporting women's literacy through mobile learning applications.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

There has been much discontent in Pakistan with the ban, which has also affected Android mobile phone services run by Google.

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Mr. Bashir claimed Pakistan provided the U.S. in 2009 with content from wiretapped mobile phone conversations of bin Laden's courier, the man who would eventually lead them to the al Qaeda chief.

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At 47, he has worked as an executive at RAM Mobile Data in the U.K. and run telecom companies in Pakistan, Poland and Croatia.

FORBES: A New Calling

Building upon ideas and experiences exchanged during the event, programmes on teacher development through mobile learning will be developed during 2012 in four focus countries: Mexico, Pakistan, Nigeria and Senegal.

UNESCO: WORLDWIDE