Developing Digital Libraries for All
How can mobile devices help libraries, both in developed and developing nations? Your task this week is to explore online and learn about specific library projects in a developing nation. How are they creating new literacy opportunities and expanding access to the internet and information databases? How can they best move forward to support the local needs of their communities? Also explore how mobile devices might assist in this endeavour and what new affordances they bring to the developing world that will allow them to provide greater and more democratic access to information, unfiltered and uncensored? I read through a few websites of NPOs who have missions related to developing literacy in developing nations, but none of these seemed to be as digitally focused as Library for All (LFA). LFA is an Australian non-profit organisation whose mission is to provide equitable access to knowledge via digital-first libraries in local languages. Inspired by classrooms in post-ear...