[GCompris-devel] Fwd: Innovation competition: Mobile literacy and psychosocial wellbeing tool for children affected by the Syrian conflict

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Johnny Jazeix <jazeix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> Johnny
>
>
> 2015-10-06 0:22 GMT+02:00 Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin at gcompris.net>:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I just received the following proposal. I don't know anything more about
>> this project than what is publicly available [1].
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I cross post to KDE-Edu as it may be of interest for other projects.
>>
>> Bruno.
>>
>> [1] http://www.norad.no/eduapp4syria
>>
>> -------- Message transféré -------- Sujet : Innovation competition:
>> Mobile literacy and psychosocial wellbeing tool for children affected by
>> the Syrian conflict Date : Thu, 1 Oct 2015 07:57:37 +0000 De : Nordhaug,
>> Liv Marte <Liv.Marte.Nordhaug at norad.no> <Liv.Marte.Nordhaug at norad.no>
>>
>> *Dear Madam/Sir*,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Because of your relevant expertise I’m writing to alert you to this
>> competition and invite your participation in our upcoming dialogue
>> conferences.
>>
>>
>>
>> I also wanted to share some of the great benefits of participating in
>> this competition:
>>
>>    - Funding for the development and testing of the best designs
>>    - R&D input from world-class experts
>>    - High visibility and showcasing of the best applications (and their
>>    developers) to key players in the mobile industry
>>    - Contribute to improved learning and psychosocial wellbeing of
>>    Syrian refugee children
>>
>>
>>
>> I encourage you to visit our website <http://www.norad.no/eduapp4syria>
>> 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:
>>
>> ·        Oslo (also live-streamed) on Oct 26 (register online here
>> <http://www.norad.no/eduapposlo>)
>>
>> ·        Washington, D.C. on Oct 29 (register online here
>> <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eduapp4syria-competition-dialogue-conference-invitation-tickets-18831236736>).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Liv Marte Nordhaug,
>>
>> the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)
>>
>>
>>
>> *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).*
>>
>
Hi Bruno,
I agree it probably requires some resources we don't have at the time, even
if it would be nice to be there...

Thanks for sharing!
Aleix
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