We are pleased to announce that Prof. Alexander Khoroshilov and Prof. María Soledad Ramírez Montoya, Keynote Speakers at UNESCO-UNIR ICT & Education Latam Congress 2016 (http://www.unesco-unir-latam.org). 

Both are well-known worldwide as experts in Educational Technology and Innovation, and both are members of the most influential organizations in the field.

Alexander Khoroshilov is the Officer-in-Charge for UNESCO IITE (Institute for Information Technologies in Education, Moscow, Russia).  He holds a PhD and is a well-known scientist and specialist on ICTs, mathematical modeling and statistics. He has over 40 years of deep professional experience in the field of ICTs and education (strategic development and management, capacity building and professional development, coordination of scientific-educational projects) including that at the international level.

María Soledad Ramírez Montoya is the director of the UNESCO Chair “Open Educational Movement for Latin America”, director of the International Council for Open of Distance Education (ICDE): OER Latin America office, lead researcher on the Strengthening Information Society Research Capacity Alliance (SIRCA) network, main organizer of the Regional Open Latin American Network for Social Research and Education (CLARISE) and coordinator of the Research and Innovation in Education Group (GIIE) at Tecnológico de Monterrey.