Sawbo
09.04.2011 | 08:00 PM
Animation & cell phones: Development Aid on the way!
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Animation just got even cooler for me.The Scientific Animations Without Borders Team, an inspired group of educators and faculty based at the University of Illinois, are producing animated educational videos for people in developing nations worldwide that can be downloaded and viewed, over and over, via their handy cell phones. It�s a new approach to sustainable development education that reaches a huge audience- at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods.Picture this, would you: A farmer in Niger learns how to protect his crops from insects. A resident of a Haitian village learns how to avoid exposure to cholera. An entrepreneur in Mali gets step-by-step instructions on extracting the oil from shea seeds to make shea butter she can sell at a local market�.Meteoric Impact PotentialResearch shows that nearly 60 percent of the 2.4 BILLION cell phone users on the planet live in developing countries. Imagine the potential of spreading anti-cholera health information thru those channels, say in Haiti. Powerful stuff, with potentially huge impact.The soon to be, ''sed To Be''


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