Remove Alternative Remove India Remove Literacy Remove Mobile
article thumbnail

A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

India 99
article thumbnail

Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

Olutosin has created an alternative: a women-only center that allows Nigerian women to connect online safely and freely. In India, women bloggers are threatened on Twitter with “live-telecasted gang-rape and acid attacks.” Women in our online community tell of solutions, but they also tell of risk.

Digital 20
article thumbnail

Youth Connection Session at Games 4 Change Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take a peek into the hotbed of open prototyping, game jams, and mobile media experiements, then consider how schools might start to build social change into games studies curriculum. Gaming is a literacy of transgression. Subvert the rules explore the limits of system propose alternate responses Great skills for social change.

Game 50