The slide decks our group worked on for the Millennium Youth Camp 2012. Authors: CHANGPING CHEN (China) PABLO LANASPA FERRER (Spain) ALEXANDRU PALCUIE (Romania) VALERIA STANEVA (Bulgaria) JUSTAS ŽEMGULYS (Lithuania) Helpers: Timo Sorsa - Nokia Mika Välitalo - Plan

1. INCREASING LITERACY IN
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
THROUGH ICT
CHANGPING CHEN
(China)
PABLO LANASPA FERRER
(Spain)
ALEXANDRU PALCUIE
ICT (Romania)
VALERIA STANEVA
Group (Bulgaria)
JUSTAS ŽEMGULYS
(Lithuania)
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3. WHY LITERACY ?
• “Literacy is not an end in itself. It is a fundamental
human right.” (Persepolis Declaration)
• Identified as necessary to access and interact with
– Social connections
– Technical & Scientific Knowledge
– Current & Future Technologies
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4. CONNECTIVITY
• Our civilization has been connected more than
ever
• Connectivity = Access to Entire Knowledge Base
• Most individuals in developing countries are
not connected
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5. WHICH TECHNOLOGY SHOULD WE
USE ?
• WiMAX technology,
radius of 50km
• Mobile networks:
– GSM
– 3G
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6. POTENTIAL OF THE TV
SPECTRUM
• Multimedia Home Platform (MHP):
– Unidirectional.
– Bidirectional:
• WiMAX
• Mobile networks
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7. OFFLINE INTERNET
• Distributing downloaded contents in remote
places with Internet access.
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9. RASPBERRY PI
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10. RASPBERRY PI
• Cheap
• Flexible
• Display
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11. LINUX EDUBUNTU
• Free and open source
• A lot of fun games
• Easily remote maintenance
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12. MOBILE DEVICES
• Broaden distribution
• Dumb-phones
• Client / Server
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13. MOBILE SOLUTIONS
• Even simple devices can make a change
• Nokia Mobile Mathematics
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14. CONTENT
• Linguistic skills
• Games
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15. LINGUISTIC SKILLS
• SRS (Spaced Recognition System)
• The Pimsleur´s Approach
• Rosetta Stone
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16. LINGUISTIC
IMPROVEMENTS
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17. EDUCATIONAL CONTENT
Literacy Games
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18. High
Fun Game
scores
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19. Single
Multi
Role
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20. THANK YOU
CHANGPING CHEN
(China)
PABLO LANASPA FERRER
(Spain)
ICT ALEXANDRU PALCUIE
(Romania)
Group VALERIA STANEVA
(Bulgaria)
JUSTAS ŽEMGULYS
(Lithuania)
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