{"id":1180,"date":"2010-09-30T09:33:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T13:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2012-09-27T10:37:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T14:37:29","slug":"from-illertacy-to-mcommunity-jokko-inititaive-empowers-women-with-mlearning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/meducation-initiatives\/from-illertacy-to-mcommunity-jokko-inititaive-empowers-women-with-mlearning\/","title":{"rendered":"From Illiteracy to mCommunity, Jokko Initiative Empowers Women with mLearning"},"content":{"rendered":"
Since 1991, Tostan has brought its holistic, 30-month Community Empowerment Program based on human rights to thousands of communities in West Africa. As part of this program, they teach basic literacy and numeracy to community participants, particularly women and girls, but not without problems.<\/p>\n
“For years we have been looking for ways to address the challenge of making literacy relevant, finding ways for participants to practice their new skills, all the while engaging women and girls in the process and reinforcing existing social ties.” Molly Melching, Executive Director of Tostan<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That is until they started using mobile phones. It turns out that people are willing, excited, and economically motivated to use mobile phones to improve their numeracy and literacy skills – improving their ability to communicate via phones and create communities of support. <\/p>\n
Jokko Initiative<\/b><\/p>\n
Tostan has come up with an intriguing way to teach basic literacy and numeracy, by tying it to the use of mobile phones, through their Jokko Initiative<\/a> in Senegal.<\/p>\n