Kinkajou Projector Brings Literacy to Mali

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Kinkajou Projector Brings Literacy to Mali

Video by: Lindsay Mann , Erik Winkowski, Morgan Currie, Lindsay Utz, MacKenzie Fegan, Michael Schaubach | Music by: Sublime Frequencies , Audio Dregs Recordings

Posted: April 14, 2009 at 1:25 pm

Teaching adults to read is a difficult enough task in and of itself, but in rural Mali, teachers also face classrooms without electricity and books weathered by the punishing desert climate. Enter the Kinkajou Projector, a fusion of high and low technology that makes teaching night literacy classes as easy as ABC.

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DISCUSSION: 3 Comments

- Posted by: tzik
- on April 16, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Good is such an amazing thing
- Posted by: Sebastian Buck
- on May 4, 2009 at 8:50 pm
awesome
- Posted by: LuYenRoloff
- on July 14, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Great, thanks for that idea! I hope to see more designers engage into socially and politically relevant products in the near future. Its just what we need now as the old systems have reached their limits in dealing with the fundamental problems on a grand scale – people taking initiatives on whatever scale they can act.

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Lindsay Mann
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