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19 Dec 09

Literacy Bridge

  • The Talking Book is a low cost audio computer that shares knowledge and improves literacy. 



    It is helping impoverished rural families learn to prevent disease and improve their crops.



    In overcrowded classrooms, children use it to learn from interactive literacy lessons.

A Talking Book for Africa | A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education

  • The 'Talking Book' is a low-cost audio device device with recording capabilities -- imagine a rubbery MP3 player about the size of a grapefuit -- rather ingeniously engineered (and re-engineered) to meet specific needs and usage scenarios in very poor communities in Africa.  It is designed for use in local languages, using locally produced content, as tool to promote literacy among primary school children (to cite just one goal and target group). One way to think of the device, Cliff said, is as a  'small portable computer without a display'.  While the project is still in its pilot stages, it is notable for its express interest in investigating solutions that are low cost and scalable from the beginning, and in rigorously monitoring and evaluating the impact of its interventions.
  • Literacy Bridge began, he said, with the idea that the most effective approach towards ending global poverty requires empowering people with better access to knowledge, and that those in greatest need are impeded by illiteracy, disability, and inadequate infrastructure. (Here's video from a talk Cliff gave at Google about the project's goals and approach to development.) The project is operationally very lean, supported financially by hundreds of individual donations and by thousands of volunteer hours. 
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Educational Research Network for West and Central Africa ERNWACA

Education research should influence the evolution of educational systems. The Educational Research Network for West and Central Africa – ERNWACA – was created to increase research capacity, strengthen collaboration among researchers and practitioners, and promote African expertise on education so as to positively impact educational practices and policies.

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12 May 09

Mau Mau veterans sue for colonial abuses | World news | The Guardian

  • Five elderly Kenyans detained and allegedly tortured during the Mau Mau independence uprising of more than 50 years ago are to issue a reparations claim against the British government in London next month.

  • More than 150,000 Kenyans were held in appalling conditions in detention camps during the uprising against the British colonial administration, according to recent studies. Tens of thousands of people were killed or died of disease or starvation, while torture of prisoners was routine and brutal.

    The Kenya Human Rights Commission said it had documented in detail 40 cases of castration, severe sexual abuse and unlawful detention, and these actions "resulted from policies which were sanctioned at the highest levels of government in London".

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