Children write African Stories

Give children an opportunity to use digital tools to write, their own stories in their own languages on an open sourced digital library

Education Advisor ICT for development agencies and governments and schools, African Story book- Saide team, VLS, M-lugha

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African children in marginalized areas do not have the opportunity to use digital tools to tell their own stories. The reason this is a problem is because denying children in the 21st century the opportunity to participate in discussions about themselves is detrimental to their sense of autonomy, independence, social competence an resilience. 

I will increase the number of new African projects seeded in 2022

This proposal clearly demonstrate Cardano tech use-case solutions by the repository of these digital stories going on the block chain and being used

African developers will be used to code this project

The project has a global reach local impact (measurable through user activity and reach)

The Local partnerships formed (size of institution + influence) this is already available through the Learning Tool kit by Concordia University that uses the African story book stories in the READS component. This is now available on the Kenya cloud the curriculum body of the Kenya government

This proposal has been submitted before and received a small amount of funding. If not funded we could run into problems with implementation as more funding is needed to do the work

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KPIs

Output: 1.

 Train and support Eastern African children to tell their in their own languages stories using ASB digital tools in 2022

Output 2. 

Make ASB repository of digital stories available on Cardano

Activities

KPIs

May 2022 Communicate 10 schools to consult on the best ways to support digital uptake and teacher sensitization

May 2022 Further Develop resources to support use of the digital storybooks in the schools.

May -July 2022Train and support the writing and editing of 500 stories from 10 schools into the ASB repository

May 2022: Develop monitoring tools, and formats for reporting on progress, as well a schedule for support visits.

May to August 2022: Visit the schools once every two months for a period of six months to monitor progress.

 May June 2022: County school managers from MOE TSC . KICD for support the teachers use of existing devices 

 May June July 2022: Support the writing of stories through writing workshops include stories 

July 2022: Create an NFT Marketplace for African children stories

Communicate 10 schools to consult on the best ways to support digital uptake and teacher sensitization 1000

Further Develop resources to support use of the digital storybooks in the schools.2000

Train and support the writing and editing of 500 stories from 10 schools into the ASB repository 4000

Develop monitoring tools, and formats for reporting on progress, as well a schedule for support visits. 2000

Visit the schools once every two months for a period of six months to monitor progress. 4000

 County school managers from MOE TSC . KICD for support the teachers use of existing devices 1000

Create an NFT Marketplace for African children stories 6000

The team has mor than 20 years collective experience in the ICT education space and a reach with many teachers in the East African region

Anne has worked on various projects that support the integration of ICT in education as

an Ed tech expert and education advisor ICT. Also an active community member

and a funded proposer in fund 7 and a Community advisor https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-gatende-a89791158/

Victor

 is an education technologist in Strathmore University, Kenya. He is a

Ph.D candidate in Computer Science with a research interest in Security

Monitoring in Industrial Control Systems. He is currently involved in the

creation of digital learning content and configuration / administration of open

source Learning Management Systems and School Management Systems. He is

passionate about cyber-security and digital forensics, https://www.linkedin.com/in/malombe/

Antony is a

Computer Technologist, focusing on Open Source solutions for corporate

enterprises.

Currently a system developer and corporate consultant at Aero

Dimensions Africa.

Member: Python Community, Nairobi Ruby Community(Nairuby),

Nairobi SharePoint User Group and Red Hat Developers community

https://www.linkedin.com/in/oantony/

Angela is a Plutus pioneer Haskell/Plutus trainer and course developer and an Atala Prism pioneer as well as bein an active catalyst community member, eastern Townhall co host, funded proposer, CA and VCA

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Project KPIs

Overall goal support children to tell their own digital stories and create an NFT market place for the African story book on Cardano

• Communication with 10 schools to consult on the best ways to support digital uptake and teacher sensitization
• Resources to support use of the digital storybooks in the schools further developed
• 500 stories from 10 schools into the ASB repository written
• Monitoring tools, and formats for reporting on progress, as well a schedule for support visits.
• Schools visited once every two months for a period of six months to monitor progress.
• July 2022: Create an NFT Marketplace for African children stories

• Give African children in marginalized areas a voice to tell their own stories in their own languages to build them as future leaders. 
• Help them learn how to use digital tools to tell their own stories in their languages, 
• Give them this sense of autonomy and independence, 
• Boost their confidence in using technology competently, 
• Improve their social competence and resilience 
• Create an NFT marketplace for African digital stories

Yes this proposal was funded in Fund 7 as a pilot an can be scaled https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/381347

SDG Rating

SDG goals:

Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

SDG Subgoals:

4.a Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all

4.b By 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States and African countries, for enrolment in higher education, including vocational training and information and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific programmes, in developed countries and other developing countries

9.5 Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, in particular developing countries, including, by 2030, encouraging innovation and substantially increasing the number of research and development workers per 1 million people and public and private research and development spending

9.b Support domestic technology development, research and innovation in developing countries, including by ensuring a conducive policy environment for, inter alia, industrial diversification and value addition to commodities

9.c Significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries by 2020

Key Performance Indicator (KPI):

9.c.1 Proportion of population covered by a mobile network, by technology

4.a.1 Proportion of schools offering basic services, by type of service

4.b.1 Volume of official development assistance flows for scholarships by sector and type of study

9.5.1 Research and development expenditure as a proportion of GDP

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