Presented by James Tanis and Colin Cowell

Book-gain-ville:

“An education

revolution on

Bougainville

using

Kindle e-readers”

Todays presentation

Our vision : An education revolution

Our Bougainville

Our current education situation

Our Adult literacy problems

Our need for books and IT

Use of Kindles internationally in schools

Our Kindle project start up

Our education revolution vision

Nelson Mandela

Bougainville education revolution

Where is Bougainville?

1000 Km east of

Port Moresby

1500 km north

east of Cairns

Cape York

All flights Via Port

Moresby

Bougainville-our island home

A tropical paradise

A rugged beauty

240 km by 64 km

Mountainous with two active volcano Mt Balbi and Mt Bagana 2715 meters (Kosciusko 2228)

Wild rivers and clear blue water

Beautiful sandy beaches

Outlying islands

Bougainville-our people

Melanesian

30,000 years

Population over

200,000

Over 25 distinct

languages

Matrilineal society

Land is passed from

mother to daughter

Our culture is strong

Bougainville –Our history of occupation

Since the beginning our time

1768 French Explorer Bougainville

1800’s Black birding our people

1899-German occupation and exploitation

1920-Australian Mandate

1942-Japan invasion

1943-America/Australia

1948-Australia

1968-CRA/Rio Tinto mining

Bougainville –Independence and the crisis

1973-1975 Papua New Guinea/UN independence

1988 –Bougainville conflict with PNG 20,000 deaths

2001-Peace accord

2013 Education revolution

2015 Elections /referendum

Bougainville – Current education crisis

Elementary schools

Teachers

Community

Adult literacy

Bougainville – Current education crisis

Bougainville –the need for books

Use of Kindles in third world countries

• Literacy is transformative: it increases earning potential,

decreases inequality, improves health outcomes and breaks the

cycle of poverty (UNESCO).

• Yet there are 740 million illiterate people in this world and 250

million children of primary school age who lack basic reading and

writing skills (UNESCO).

• Books are necessary for the development of these skills, and still

50% of schools in Africa have few or no books at all (SACMEQ II).

Use of Kindles in third world countries

Use of Kindles in third world countries

World reader Technology

The increasing ubiquity and diminishing costs of digital technology enable us to solve

these problems in a simple and straight-forward way.

Wherever possible, we build on digital platforms and mobile connectivity in the

developing world to make our books available to children and families who need them the

most.

We provide e-readers to schools in need through both sponsorships and sales.

We saw that cell phones were widely prevalent in developing countries so we created a

mobile app which runs on feature phones and Android devices.

Our publishing team works hard to optimize titles for the smallest screen sizes.

Our rapid scaling capacity is the most effective and inexpensive way to distribute books to

those in limited and no-access areas.

And it works: after less than 5 months in our program, children show significant

improvements in fluency and comprehension.

Use of Kindles in third world countries

Mobile Phones as E-ReadersFor the first time ever, millions of folks in the developing

world have access to a library of books using a device they

already own: their mobile phone.

With its application for feature and android phones,

Worldreader is turning on its head the notion that reading e-

books requires an e-reader, tablet or smart phone.

In order to achieve this ground-breaking feat, Worldreader

has partnered with biNu, an App developer based in Sydney.

biNu’s patented technology delivers a smart phone like

experience to low end feature phones—

Indigenous literacy project Australia

Bookgainville – Leadership group

To be the voice to students to do their best

and achieve their best;

To be the voice to parents to make

education the first priority in the family;

To be the voice to demand those in

possession of arms to replace their guns

with pens and papers;

To be the voice to tell landowners to

negotiate for educational scholarships

instead of cash pay-outs as

compensation;

To be the voice to the political leaders to

allocate the highest budget to education;

Bookgainville – Our vision

To be the voice to remind all to reserve

some resources now and leave some to our

own children so that they will harvest when

they acquire the technology,

To be the voice to Donors to advocate that

education must form the highest portion of

aid to Papua New Guinea (Bougainville) and

to advocate for all groups that contribute to

education and knowledge.

Bookgainville – Our vision

www.bookgainville.com

Bookgainville – Our future