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Creative Problem-solving using ICT Leverage , Reinforce, Link Up & Adapt

Creative Problem-solving using ICT Leverage , Reinforce, Link Up & Adapt. Edmond Gaible The Natoma Group www.natomagroup.com. EIFL / PLIP • Ljubljana, Slovenia • 31 January, 2012. Leverage (Find points of…. ) Reinforce (… skills and participation)

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Creative Problem-solving using ICT Leverage , Reinforce, Link Up & Adapt

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  1. Creative Problem-solvingusing ICTLeverage, Reinforce, Link Up & Adapt Edmond GaibleThe Natoma Groupwww.natomagroup.com EIFL / PLIP • Ljubljana, Slovenia • 31 January, 2012

  2. Leverage(Find points of….) • Reinforce(… skills and participation) • Link up (… with existing tools & resources) • Adapt(… to challenges) • Youth Corner ZavidoviciPublic Library • Bosnia & Herzegovina • Library on WheelsLibrary Goce-DelchevStipMacedonia • Mobile information for farmers • Pasvalys Marius Katiliskis LibraryLithuania

  3. Leverage:PésiNetin Senegal • Problem: High rates of poverty and disease • Inadequate food & water; illiteracy • High rates of malaria & other diseases • Clinics are expensive & hard to access —> high child mortality • Situation: • Local doctors find that increasing weight is a reliable early indicator of a child’s health; • the city (St. Louis, Senegal) has OK public access to Internet

  4. Leverage:PésiNetin Senegal — Solutions • Mothers subscribe to PésiNet for US$00.25 per month • A team of trained local women weigh each subscribed child 2x per week • Weighers use email in telecenters & cybercafes to send weight spreadsheets to project doctors • Doctors review information & send requests to see children with irregular weight charts

  5. Leverage:PésiNetin Senegal (& Mali) • Performance: 1,800 children weighed at home 8x per month (for 3 years) • Impact: Child mortality among these children decreases from 118 deaths per 1,000 to 8 • Sustainability: Senegal project (2002-2005) replicated in Bamako, Mali, using mobile phones & SMS (2007 – present) • Local healthcare services expanded • Mobile phones communicate via Internet to database • Abnormal cases flagged automatically • Winner “Top 11” projects for Rockefeller and mHealth

  6. Reinforce: EVOKE: Quests Missions Posting evidence Blogging Commenting Awarding Alternate Reality Game for Social Innovation

  7. Players completing missions, quests & evidence Reinforce: EVOKE Participation

  8. Reinforce: EVOKEImpact Effect on awareness of local and global challenges among African players

  9. Link Up: M4Lit – South Africa • Problem: • Poor literacy levels among youth • No habit of reading • Situation: “Book poor” but “mobile rich” • 51% South African households without “leisure books” • 7% Public schools with functional libraries • Excellent mobile networks • 90% of urban youth have mobile phones • Mobile web access increasing in townships

  10. Link Up (and leverage): M4Lit • Solution: • Publish m-novels accessible via mobile phone • 400 characters per day • isiXhosa & English versions • Multiple platforms, including Mxit, yoza.mobi • Versions of classics (Romeo & Juliet, etc)

  11. Link Up: M4Lit — Outcomes • Outcomes(one year, 2009-2010): • 63,000 subscribers • Peer learning: 83% learned about MXit from friends or siblings • 8,400 comments per month via mobile phone

  12. Link Up: M4Lit • MXit • IM service & social network for mobile phones • 1:1 SMS and multimedia messaging (MMS) • Data access for mobile phones • SMS is more expensive • Complement to yoza.mobi • Project website with same content • Complement to SMS • Lower costs to users + more features • > 10 million users in South Africa • Low-cost marketing to users

  13. Link Up (and reinforce): M4Lit The stories r interesting nd fun 2 read, they kip ma englshgngHlengiwegulube Its overated and typical bt great as it show iz a local production 5 out of 10 4 mePule If friar's plan wrks, then romeowilb able 2 cum nd take juliet wit hm 2 livhapily 2geda at mantuabt if it fails, sumbdy'sgnab dead. Lol!Elsie A gud st0ri alth0ugh vewi sh0rt id lyk 2 c m0re 0n mxit bk0z it enc0uragez readin! Lesleigh(F) T z a vry !ntstngstry,reallyattrtzda a attnsfdareader.k!pt up L!hle

  14. Adapt (and leverage, reinforce, link up) Your projects can be here!!! • Bulk messaging? SMS management software • Frontline SMS (open source) and Google SMS toolswww.frontlinesms.orgwww.google.com/mobile/sms • Poor electricity? Low-power, low-cost tools • Netbooks instead of desktops • Flat screen monitors, thin-client networks Inveneo — www.inveneo.org • Poor (or expensive) connectivity? • 3G or GPRS mobile broadband • Distribute via CD and DVD (or thumb drive) • Low literacy among users? User-friendly tools for low-literacy • MP3 and MP4 formats • Mobile phone information exchange? Integrated SMS • VoIP Drupal —http://drupal.org/project/voipdrupal“I see VoIP Drupal as a mechanism to extend basic information and communication infrastructure to even those who may not have access to computers or the Internet.  Our goal is to raise awareness to local matters, foster participation in decision-making and facilitate local community outreach by and for all.  It would be awesome if the proper use of VoIP Drupal could help transform libraries from ‘information warehouses’ into ‘catalysts of local information and cultural production.’  Does that make sense?” — Leo Burd, MIT Center for Civic Media Twitter? Facebook? Other social networks? QR codes? Other tools & content?

  15. Thank you! • A few other resources: • Partnership for 21st Century Skillswww.p21.org • Curriki Open Education Resources Lesson plans & multimediawww.curriki.org • HippoCampus Open Education ResourcesFree e-learning for homework help & brush-upwww.hippocampus.org

  16. Link Up (and leverage):BurroNetin Costa Rica • Problem: Farmers’ cooperative receives low prices for crops • Situation: • ~60 low-literate cooperative farmers within 1 day’s walk • Low literacy, no communications • Market for organic crops increasing • Organic certification requires appropriate inputs & accurate records by all farmers

  17. Link Up (and leverage):BurroNetin Costa Rica • Solution: • Develop forms for electronic records, develop information for farmers • Train 3 coop workers to use handheld computers (HP iPaq) • Each coop worker visits 20 farmers per month, completes form, shares information • Information uploaded to database in town • Outcome & impact: • Farmers increase skills, crop yields • Cooperative builds process to meet record-keeping requirements

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