[UgaBYTES] KAIPPG Kenya: Use of Mobile Phones (posting again due to config problems)

[gerhard Wagner]

  there colleagues,

mobile phones are just a tool and have to be complemented
by a physical infrastructure, e.g. supplied by tele-houses.

There are plenty of mobile service in place in Eastern Europe
which are cheap since NOT based on SMS. So even affordable
in remote areas. So that you can use the mobile phone OFF-lINE.

- mobile books on the phone: I was even surprised about the good legilibty
- mobile learning and exams
- mobile health services (guide in case of heart disease)
- cheap televison on your mobile (by means of digital television)

so in those countries where citizens even can NOT afford to pay
their monthly bill for the mobile operator,
we can recommend to use mobile phones as simple and cheap display
and tool.

kind regards from Vienna,


Gerhard

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At 07:57 01.12.2008, you wrote:
>Note to Moderator and All:  I'm sending this article through again 
>as a plain-text, because it appears not to have configured properly 
>when posted on this forum. My apologies for the double postings, and 
>hope this one is more readable! Janet Feldman
>
>
>Dear Friends,
>
>Immense thanks for the excellent discussion abt mobile phones, which 
>have been used by the rural Kenyan nonprofit, KAIPPG 
>(www.kaippg.org), that I represent at the international level. 
>Mobile phones are an essential part of our communications network, 
>which also includes radio, photography, cassette players and video 
>cameras, as well as traditional art forms (such as theatre, music, 
>and graphics).
>
>We have established a central location for a physical telecentre, 
>and also have developed a series of kiosks (for educational and 
>communication purposes). Mobile phones help to link this network 
>together, as well as serving a wide variety of information 
>purposes--from weather reports to crop prices--and providing women 
>in particular a way to engage in income-generating projects, with 
>less discrimination than they otherwise often face.
>
>Hopefully this will be a helpful example in terms of the issues 
>under discussion, and please be in contact with myself or James 
>Onyango, Exec Director of KAIPPG Kenya (kaippg at africaonline.co.ke). 
>With greatest thanks and best wishes, Janet Feldman, KAIPPG 
>International, kaippg at earthlink.net
>
>http://ictupdate.cta.int
>
>http://ictupdate.cta.int/en/Feature-Articles/Kenya-The-health-and-agriculture-community-radio-network
>
>Kenya: The health and agriculture community radio network
>
>AIDS remains a major problem in Kenya, and it is often women and 
>girls who bear the brunt of the pandemic. They have no rights to own 
>property such as land, and are physiologically at greater risk of 
>catching HIV/AIDS. They are generally less well educated and only a 
>handful are employed, and so are socio-economically more vulnerable 
>to HIV/AIDS infection. Many women also suffer from malnutrition.
>
>To help address these problems, the Kenya AIDS Intervention 
>Prevention Project Group (KAIPPG) has established community-based 
>informal learning centres, called nutritional field schools, in six 
>of its 28 project sites in western Kenya. Each field school works 
>with 30 participants, giving priority to orphans, widows, low-income 
>women and older vulnerable children from HIV/AIDS-affected households.
>
>The participants are taught about nutrition, and receive training in 
>relevant skills and techniques to enable them to care for people 
>living with AIDS, to maximize crop yields and, generally, to become 
>economically and socially empowered.
>
>Using the GenARDIS grant, KAIPPG organized a health and agriculture 
>community radio network for women who had completed the training. 
>The participants were organized into six radio listening groups, and 
>were trained in the use of audio and video recording equipment to 
>enable them to exchange information such as on farming techniques, 
>and to raise public awareness about HIV/AIDS.
>
>The groups were also trained in photography and the use of drama and 
>traditional oral storytelling as tools for learning, education and 
>development. A radio cassette player and a mobile phone was 
>distributed to each of the groups, and the participants were 
>encouraged to communicate with national FM radio stations - to 
>respond to programmes, obtain information, and share their 
>experiences with a wider audience.
>
>Each group prepared and recorded on tape a presentation, song, poem, 
>role-play or story on a relevant topic of their choice. One women's 
>group, for example, performed a play about farming and the 
>preparation of nutritious food for people living with HIV/AIDS. 
>Another group sang traditional songs on planting, harvesting and the 
>preparation of sweet potatoes.
>
>The tapes were then exchanged among the groups so that each group 
>was able to learn about the work of the others. Each group also set 
>up an information kiosk stocked with the tapes they had produced and 
>other information. KAIPPG hopes to translate the tapes into English 
>and French, and to release the content also on diskettes and CD-ROM.
>
>James Onyango is executive director of KAIPPG (www.kaippg.org), a 
>Kenyan NGO that works in rural communities of Kenya to address the 
>challenges posed by HIV/AIDS, using an holistic approach.
>
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