A library in your pocket will help bridge the digital and information divide by giving everyone access to information through mobile devices. Mobile technology has spread rapidly globally and can provide affordable access to information anywhere, helping achieve education for all and reduce learning gaps between rich and poor. Putting religious books online for free increased their print sales, showing digital access can encourage rather than replace physical access. A library in one's pocket through mobile learning can provide intellectual nourishment and development to help ensure survival.

1. A Library in Your Pocket Dr. Mohamed Ally Director and Professor Centre for Distance Education Athabasca University Canada [email_address] May 20, 2010

2. Athabasca University Canada’s Open University

15. Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education

16. Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

17. Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality

18. Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health

19. Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases

20. Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability

21. Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development

23. Ally, M. (2009) Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training ( http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120155)

24. A library in your pocket

26. A Library in Everyone’s Pocket will provide intellectual nourishment to citizens around the world (Ally, 2010). If the intellect is developed then survival will be possible (Ally, 2010). Intellectual (mental) starvation is more severe than physical (nutritional) starvation (Ally, 2010).

27. “ To know where you can find anything, that in short is the largest part of learning.” - Anonymous

28. Questions and Discussion Mohamed Ally, Ph.D. [email_address]