<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>on my side, I'm not fond talking about competition when it involves helping people in need... We can propose them GCompris as it is because it can probably help the children to learn things and if they have ideas to make it better, we can discuss them and see how to integrate them.<br><br></div>Johnny<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-10-06 0:22 GMT+02:00 Bruno Coudoin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruno.coudoin@gcompris.net" target="_blank">bruno.coudoin@gcompris.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Hi,<br>
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GCompris is used by many organizations to help children in
emergency situations. I am not personally involved in such project
but for sure we all appreciate that our hard work helps these
children.<br>
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I just received the following proposal. I don't know anything more
about this project than what is publicly available [1].<br>
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I am not very motivated by this kind of competitions, It usually
implies a lot of overhead just to manage the contest and it is
hard for us to respect deadlines. Anyway, I would like your input,
do you have ideas to propose and would you be interested in
participating in a such event.<br>
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I cross post to KDE-Edu as it may be of interest for other
projects.<br>
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Bruno.<br>
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[1] <a href="http://www.norad.no/eduapp4syria" target="_blank">http://www.norad.no/eduapp4syria</a><br>
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<td>Innovation competition: Mobile literacy and psychosocial
wellbeing tool for children affected by the Syrian
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<td>Thu, 1 Oct 2015 07:57:37 +0000</td>
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<td>Nordhaug, Liv Marte <a href="mailto:Liv.Marte.Nordhaug@norad.no" target="_blank"><Liv.Marte.Nordhaug@norad.no></a></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="NO-BOK">Dear Madam/Sir</span></b><span lang="NO-BOK">,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NO-BOK"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NO-BOK">The government of
Norway is leading an innovation competition to develop a
smartphone application that can help Syrian children learn
to read and improve their psychosocial wellbeing. Today,
three million Syrian children are unable to attend school
because of war. Many are coping with trauma and high stress
levels which affect their ability to learn.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NO-BOK"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NO-BOK">Because of your
relevant expertise I’m writing to alert you to this
competition and invite your participation in our upcoming
dialogue conferences.<s><u></u><u></u></s></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><s><span lang="NO-BOK"><u></u><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span><u></u></span></s></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NO-BOK">I also wanted to share
some of the great benefits of participating in this
competition:</span><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Funding for the development and testing of the
best designs<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">R&D input from world-class experts<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">High visibility and showcasing of the best
applications (and their developers) to key players in the
mobile industry<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Contribute to improved learning and psychosocial
wellbeing of Syrian refugee children<u></u><u></u></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NO-BOK"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NO-BOK">I encourage you to
visit our <span style="color:#1f497d">
<a href="http://www.norad.no/eduapp4syria" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">website</span></a></span> for
more information about the competition and dialogue
conferences. We’d value your contribution and hope you will
consider registering for one of our dialogue conferences:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="NO-BOK"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="NO-BOK">Oslo
(also live-streamed) on Oct 26 (<span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.norad.no/eduapposlo" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">register online here</span></a></span>)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="NO-BOK"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="NO-BOK">Washington,
D.C. on Oct 29 (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eduapp4syria-competition-dialogue-conference-invitation-tickets-18831236736" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">register online here</span></a></span><span lang="NO-BOK">). <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:38.25pt"><span lang="NO-BOK"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NO-BOK">Kind regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NO-BOK">Liv Marte Nordhaug, <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NO-BOK">the Norwegian Agency
for Development Cooperation (Norad)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NO-BOK"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="NO-BOK">On behalf of the
competition partners: the Government of Norway, the
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), All
Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development, the
mobile network operator Orange and the Inter-Agency
Network for Emergency Education (INEE).<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NO-BOK"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NO-BOK"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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