Everyone has knowledge and skills that they can share with others. However, in informal settings, where and how to share this information may be unclear. How can we unlock the potential of people and their communities to serve as resources for each other? How might community structures or gatherings be transformed into opportunities to exchange skills?
Informal Knowledge Exchange
How might we empower adults and children to exchange skills?
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The Mural Project: Bringing the Joy of Art to IDPs in Somalia
The Mural Project is a platform for exchange and collaboration by transforming community structures to places of creativity and works of art
Skill Map: allowing people who want to learn, to find people who want to teach
An interactive app to map and find skills & knowledge in refugee camps
Changing Lives... One Minute at a Time
In One Minute uses the power of mobile technology and philanthropy to meet specific needs of women around the world.
Migrants of Circumstance
An open source knowledge sharing platform that has been designed alongside Syrian refugees in Lebanon, for the past 8 months.
Learning through experience: informal education and psychosocial support model for urban Syrian refugees
A learning space that meets the needs of Syrian refugees on many levels including psychologically, vocationally and across ages demographics
Vast learning platform of free learning content shared and recommended by teachers is delivered to offline communities on $50 tablets
Volunteer teachers share free learning content, and we affordably deliver collections of it to offline communities on $50 tablets.
Mobile App for Resettled Refugees in Indiana, USA
The application will assist resettled refugees in getting better access to information and resources in their community.
CALL (Collaborative And Lively Learning)
Call is a Radio in Mobile for informal learning of essential life skills and employability skills in an entertaining and collaborative way.
Life is a Song
Life is a Song aims at creating content that will make reading a fun activity for children and their parents.
Peer-to-peer, self-directed learning
Dev4X is an open community project that is developing a self-schooling platform, empowering learners to teach themselves and their friends.
Pregnancy Health
To identify young pregnant women by the help of social workers use health worker to train the young pregnant women on pregnancy management.
Youth empowerment through Design - workshops in the Kakuma refugee camp (update: user experience map 2/7)
Youth from the Eastlands of Nairobi and international artists conduct creative workshops with young people in the Kakuma refugee camp.
Songs for Somalia: Cultivating artistic creation, knowledge exchange, and musical performance.
With the help of those with musical abilities in their communities, students will learn a musical skill, culminating in a talent show.
MOOC LEARNING CENTER IN KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP.
To build skills that will enable young and adult displaced people be able to turn conflicts into opportunities.
Discover Seeds of Hope (DSOH)
An entire educational system will be designed around an alternate reality game with missions and quests.
Improving Teaching and Learning Standard in Classes.
The contribution is to enhance the improvement of learning and academic performance from students especially from refugees camps .
Street to Global Fraternity: Unity from Diversity
Young adults voice experience globally by full music production, poetry,& art; sharing, caring, owning, and proclaiming they matter.
Engage Refugees
As refugees, many of us have skills, resilience and expertise. All we need is opportunity, not someone telling us how...
Crowd Sourcing Culturally Specific Early Literacy Materials Using Technology
By capturing and making available the literacy skills of resettled refugees, we can provide culturally relevant materials to those displaced
Using Soccer to Improve Literacy
Right To Play will connect its unique sport-based methodology with community libraries to enhance life and literacy skills for refugee youth
Print Learning Games and Teaching Materials onto Cardboard Packaging
Provide flexible, durable, and cheap educational materials by printing learning tools onto the inside of food packaging.