Date: April 20, 12-1pm
Location: Bread for the World Institute, 425 3rd St. SW, Suite 1200, Washington DC 20024
The Lubuto Library Project was one of 12 groups chosen from several hundred applicants worldwide to be awarded a grant from EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Project, for which EIFL received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to encourage innovation with information technology in public libraries. Lubuto's project addresses the critical need that the educational system cannot meet for a means to teach all Zambian children to read in their original language. The open source reading programs can run on other platforms and in addition to being made available to Lubuto Library users on XO laptops will be posted on the LubutoCollections.org website to inspire the creation of similar programs in other African countries and languages.
- Mike Lee of Sugar Labs, Washington DC, USA and One Laptop Per Child organization, Boston, MA, USA
- Jane Kinney Meyers, President of the Lubuto Project will present the project, demonstrate some of its output and discuss its impact during a brown bag lunch.
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