I'm certainly enjoying the discussion, and also wanted to comment on use of ICTs for overall management of the system. For example, with a number of MOEs investing in Educational Management Information Systems (EMIS) to track personnel, finances, student performance, etc., I'm also intrigued by the possible uses of mobile phones to provide more timely access to this information. Traditionally, you'd have a central repository for this information stored on a computer server somewhere with only select administrators accessing this information. Mobile phones be used to send and retrieve more timely EMIS information (take the analogy of Voxiva's projects using SMS to gather information from doctors and nurses, but extend this to education and promote bottom-up access to the centralized data as well) so that administrators, headmasters and other interested stakeholders (e.g., parents) could have access. Thus, mobile phones could be used to promote greater efficiencies and transparency in the overall education policy-making process.