As I come across information about IDT in developing worlds, I found the below article interesting on tech trends emerging in these areas.

http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/some-more-trends

Although more on the technical side, I think it is important to know what is emerging so that it can be used in classrooms effectively.

I was most interested in number 9.

9. getting school leadership on board

Especially in countries where the first wave of large scale investments in educational technologies is subsiding, we see a recognition that some of the cost effective investments education system can make are in related outreach to and training for school headmasters and principals.  If you’ve spent tens (or hundreds) of millions of dollars on putting computers in schools, training teachers and digitizing content, spending a small sliver of such amount to do targeted outreach to school leaders can help remove many barriers to the productive realization of the potential benefits of such investments.  Where a principal is not perceived to be supportive of uses of new technologies in a school, they often tend not to be used productively in new ways by many teachers. Providing relevant ‘training’ (for lack of a better term) for them can help turn them from indifferent observers (or even wary adversaries) into people supportive leaders for changing attitudes and practices. This makes perfect sense, of course, and we do often wonder why this is a ‘new trend’ — but, in our experience, it is.”