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Presented by James Tanis and Colin Cowell
Book-gain-ville:
“An education
revolution on
Bougainville
using
Kindle e-readers”
Todays presentation
Our vision : An education revolution
Our Bougainville
Our current education situation
Our Adult literacy problems
Our need for books and IT
Use of Kindles internationally in schools
Our Kindle project start up
Our education revolution vision
Nelson Mandela
Bougainville education revolution
Where is Bougainville?
1000 Km east of
Port Moresby
1500 km north
east of Cairns
Cape York
All flights Via Port
Moresby
Bougainville-our island home
A tropical paradise
A rugged beauty
240 km by 64 km
Mountainous with two active volcano Mt Balbi and Mt Bagana 2715 meters (Kosciusko 2228)
Wild rivers and clear blue water
Beautiful sandy beaches
Outlying islands
Bougainville-our people
Melanesian
30,000 years
Population over
200,000
Over 25 distinct
languages
Matrilineal society
Land is passed from
mother to daughter
Our culture is strong
Bougainville –Our history of occupation
Since the beginning our time
1768 French Explorer Bougainville
1800’s Black birding our people
1899-German occupation and exploitation
1920-Australian Mandate
1942-Japan invasion
1943-America/Australia
1948-Australia
1968-CRA/Rio Tinto mining
Bougainville –Independence and the crisis
1973-1975 Papua New Guinea/UN independence
1988 –Bougainville conflict with PNG 20,000 deaths
2001-Peace accord
2013 Education revolution
2015 Elections /referendum
Bougainville – Current education crisis
Elementary schools
Teachers
Community
Adult literacy
Bougainville – Current education crisis
Bougainville –the need for books
Use of Kindles in third world countries
• Literacy is transformative: it increases earning potential,
decreases inequality, improves health outcomes and breaks the
cycle of poverty (UNESCO).
• Yet there are 740 million illiterate people in this world and 250
million children of primary school age who lack basic reading and
writing skills (UNESCO).
• Books are necessary for the development of these skills, and still
50% of schools in Africa have few or no books at all (SACMEQ II).
Use of Kindles in third world countries
Use of Kindles in third world countries
World reader Technology
The increasing ubiquity and diminishing costs of digital technology enable us to solve
these problems in a simple and straight-forward way.
Wherever possible, we build on digital platforms and mobile connectivity in the
developing world to make our books available to children and families who need them the
most.
We provide e-readers to schools in need through both sponsorships and sales.
We saw that cell phones were widely prevalent in developing countries so we created a
mobile app which runs on feature phones and Android devices.
Our publishing team works hard to optimize titles for the smallest screen sizes.
Our rapid scaling capacity is the most effective and inexpensive way to distribute books to
those in limited and no-access areas.
And it works: after less than 5 months in our program, children show significant
improvements in fluency and comprehension.
Use of Kindles in third world countries
Mobile Phones as E-ReadersFor the first time ever, millions of folks in the developing
world have access to a library of books using a device they
already own: their mobile phone.
With its application for feature and android phones,
Worldreader is turning on its head the notion that reading e-
books requires an e-reader, tablet or smart phone.
In order to achieve this ground-breaking feat, Worldreader
has partnered with biNu, an App developer based in Sydney.
biNu’s patented technology delivers a smart phone like
experience to low end feature phones—
Indigenous literacy project Australia
Bookgainville – Leadership group
To be the voice to students to do their best
and achieve their best;
To be the voice to parents to make
education the first priority in the family;
To be the voice to demand those in
possession of arms to replace their guns
with pens and papers;
To be the voice to tell landowners to
negotiate for educational scholarships
instead of cash pay-outs as
compensation;
To be the voice to the political leaders to
allocate the highest budget to education;
Bookgainville – Our vision
To be the voice to remind all to reserve
some resources now and leave some to our
own children so that they will harvest when
they acquire the technology,
To be the voice to Donors to advocate that
education must form the highest portion of
aid to Papua New Guinea (Bougainville) and
to advocate for all groups that contribute to
education and knowledge.
Bookgainville – Our vision
www.bookgainville.com
Bookgainville – Our future