The Daily Maverick :: Mobile books the South African way - 0 views
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Forget Amazon’s Kindle or the iPad, here's a novel project that’s making literacy fun and could just change the way teen literature is published in Africa.
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Shuttleworth Fellow Steve Vosloo believes that ordinary mobile phones in townships are the iPads and iPhones of Africa. Vosloo is the brains behind an ingenious project, Mobile for Literacy, that gets teenagers in townships to read more by working with technologies they already know and love to use
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Turns out the smartest technologies aren’t the newest gadgets or devices such as the Kindle or iPad. On the contrary, in Africa they’re clever ideas that work with existing devices to change the world for the better.