I have invited the highly respected founder of the Fantsuam Foundation in Nigeria, John Dada, to XOCamp and to the It's An Education Project mailing list. He will need funding to travel. I'll see what I can do, and I hope others can help.
http://fantsuam.org/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Dada <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:22 PM Subject: Re: Textbook project To: Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> Dear Edward Our training program had taken on the challenge of training pre school children and children up to 18 years, http://cicelyinnigeria.blogspot.com/2008_12_07_archive.html and we are doing this within the context of "Keep The Children Safe", a holistic Child Protection Program. We will therefore be keen to participate in this collaboration with Earth Treasury. As you may be aware, I live and work from the village of Kafanchan. While I can obtain permission from my organization to attend the XOCamp2 meeting, I will need help with cost of travel - is this something within your budget? Otherwise, I will be happy to be kept in the loop of discussions and post-meeting implementation plans. Thanks On 17 Dec 2008, at 00:17, Edward Cherlin wrote: Earth Treasury has initiated a digital textbook project with a number of high-powered partners. We propose to rework the common subjects and curricula using Free Software capabilities throughout, and drawing on the latest research in child development and education more broadly. I know that your organization mainly teaches older students, but I wonder whether you and Fantsuam Foundation in general would like to join our project. We feel the need for advice from those with experience in what is really needed for development. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Creating_textbooks We are also inviting University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, and have plans to extend membership further. As I have mentioned to you before, our full campaign will include OLPC XOs or other free computers for school and home, Free Software, digital textbooks, electricity and Internet out to th villages, and international microfinance. I owe you an e-mail on the microfinance idea, and on the ecoomics of the entire program. I am collecting literature on the economics of Free Software. The subject is still quite thin, but I hope that we all can do something about that, too. I am inviting members of our consortium to meet together for the first time at XOCamp2 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 12-17, 2009. Is there any chance you could attend, or send somebody? -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
