World Innovation Summit for Education(WISE).

World Innovation Summit for Education(WISE)

Integrated

Description

Manifest has been involved with WISE since its inception in 2009. As the only global summit to discuss the future of education and share innovation and best practices, the organisers wanted to extend its audience online and create a sustainable community of followers and contributors to the annual event. With speakers ranging from Gerhard Schroeder to Twitter founder Biz Stone, the event has huge global interest.

Execution

Manifest has provided social media outreach support at the WISE event in Doha, Qatar - issuing live blog posts, YouTube video content, social media updates (including Twitter and Facebook) and Digital Newsroom summaries from each day of the event. The Digital Newsroom is the hub for press and online media information from WISE both before the events and during the events themselves - using English and Arabic versions of everything to communicate with a global network of teachers, lecturers and education professionals. Following the first event in 2009, Manifest has also managed the monthly WISE email bulletin, including database management, analytics and measurement.

Summary

WISE has risen from being the brainchild of the Qatar Foundation to one of the most influential education events in the world - with high profile supporters including Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and a host of world leaders. The newsletter community has risen gradually in two years to now include thousands of education professionals. The event grows ever year, and the Digital Newsroom sees thousands of hits from all over the globe.

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