Comments on: How the Life app is changing lives around the world https://www.kaiostech.com/life-app-changing-lives-around-world/ the mobile OS for smart feature phone to enable tomorrow Tue, 16 Jun 2020 08:31:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.2 By: KaiHelp https://www.kaiostech.com/life-app-changing-lives-around-world/#comment-10569 Tue, 16 Jun 2020 08:31:20 +0000 https://www.kaiostech.com/?p=71380#comment-10569 In reply to Dr. Chris P. Udochukwu Njoku.

Hey there! Thanks for your interest in contributing to our mission enabling tomorrow for KaiOS users! Please submit your proposal via our contact form https://kaios.freshdesk.com/en/support/tickets/new under “Partnership opportunities”. Our team will gladly take a closer look at your ideas.

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By: Dr. Chris P. Udochukwu Njoku https://www.kaiostech.com/life-app-changing-lives-around-world/#comment-10562 Sun, 14 Jun 2020 16:28:36 +0000 https://www.kaiostech.com/?p=71380#comment-10562 Your KaiOS and Life app are the innovations of the century. They will increasingly help in achieving many of the SDGs on target. My early-stage development information initiative (Nigeria Information & Documentation Network [NIDNET]) would like to join in yourfostering these your amazing efforts. In partnership with a University of Nigeria’s research group—Researchers on ICTs in Education in Africa (RICTHE Africa)—NIDNET is in Programme for Improving Education, Culture, Health, Agriculture, Rural Technology and Socio-economic development (PIECHARTS) which is pursuing a vision where every Nigerian seeks, finds, accesses and uses information that helps them steadily improve their lives, work and communities.

I’ve heard of (from Marcel Heyne of URIDU) and read about KaiOS smart feature phones. Excited about that, I’m very enthusiastic about exploring how PIECHARTS can help rural women and youth (starting from Ezimo community in Enugu State where PIECHARTS had made community-approved sensitization and will be working to help residents know about, access and utilize online and printed knowledge that can improve their health, literacy/education, work, income, community and overall wellbeing. I’m passionate particularly about translating into mother tongues (for which I’d volunteered for URIDU’s Audiopedia initiative) and making the translated knowledge available on memory cards and flash disks that rural people can play on the compatible radio set that is being owned by many persons and also on compatible feature phones. Because of absence of or unreliable electricity and cost of batteries, I’m dreaming of solar-powered mp3 players, as they will be more popular when available.
It’s my focus also to be publishing nuggets (as flyers, handbills and pamphlets) of translated free-to-share information, which literate children and adults can easily read and with which PIECHARTS will be holding reading and discussion forums in villages.
PIECHARTS’ Facebook account (https://www.facebook.com/piecharts.ricthenidnet) is an additional way to announce availability of free-to-use-and-to-distribute resources packaged or re-packaged according to PIECHARTS’ target beneficiaries’ characteristics and to receive requests,

Can we work with you? If “No”, can you offer any help? (in terms of referral, advice or any other way)..

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