<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Thanks for this propositions, we are(our company) working on creating platform that will support digital education in Nigeria, but we noticed that if we do not start with teachers readiness then it may take longer to get serious adoption.</div><div> </div><div>We have been paying close attention to what is happening in several areas, and my personal suggestion is that every useful effort should be pursued as they occur, everything will converge eventually and contribute to the objectives, but there could be regret for inactivity.</div><div> </div><div>Discovering the sources of available funding is the most difficult situation confronting us, although we are profit making organization, our approach is to help government partners that we support to prepare grant proposals and applications and provide the technological/program management supports when necessary, so please share with us any useful grant makers information that are focused on Education in Africa region.</div><div> </div><div>Keep the good work going! best regards!</div><div> </div><div>David </div><div> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><hr size="1">From: "mokurai@earthtreasury.org" <mokurai@earthtreasury.org> To: Sebastian Silva <sebastian@somosazucar.org> Cc: Laura Vargas <laura@somosazucar.org>; IAEP <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org>; OLPC-SUR <olpc-Sur@lists.laptop.org> Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 5:56 AM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Funding team? On Fri, August 12, 2011 9:41 pm, Sebastian Silva wrote: > Earlier this year there was discussion about forming a "Financial Team". > I'm not sure exactly if a team is required, but formalizing mechanisms > for projects like translations and content, research or development, to > look for funds - sounds like an excellent idea. We (local labs) have > been thinking and talking for a long time about a "project bank" where > projects could be tracked in a platform for funding, as well as > requirements and funding could be gathered in bounties or calls for > proposals (the other way around). Exactly. > I'm cc'in Laura who has been thinking about the design of such a system > for a long time. ¡Hola! Laura. Por favor, ver <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Funding" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Funding</a> y díganos lo que piensas. Hay muchas oportunidades. > What do you think? Maybe funding for developing such a platform is one > of the first things to consider? It is hard to get funding to look for funding. Grantmakers want to see in advance what the proposed result of their grant for those in need is intended to be. I have in mind grants for Sugar development, for creating Open Education Resources to replace textbooks, for developing teacher training, and for localization and translation. In each of those cases we can state how many students will benefit now and can project the possibilities for the future. Translation to Spanish is one of the top priorities, in terms of numbers of children to be served. Replacing textbooks in Uruguay (starting to happen now) and Perú may rate as an even higher priority. I am planning to write to Software Freedom Conservancy, which handles donations to Sugar Labs, about how they handle fundraising projects. Their policy is to take care of administrivia and let the projects focus on development and rollout. It may be that it is more appropriate to build the platform there so that it can coordinate among all of the SFC projects. However, nothing will happen unless we get volunteers to seek out opportunities, and write the grant applications. I am assuming that given workers, we can get the board to hash out the policies. > Regards, > Sebastian > > El 12/08/11 08:30, <a ymailto="mailto:mokurai@earthtreasury.org" href="mailto:mokurai@earthtreasury.org">mokurai@earthtreasury.org</a> escribió: >> I would like to propose that we create a funding team to pursue grant >> opportunities and partnerships for Sugar Labs, including Activity >> development, translation, documentation, teacher training materials, and >> digital content integrating software into lessons and explorations. To >> get >> things started, I have created a temporary page with some suggestions. >> There are lots more. >> >> <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Funding" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Funding</a> >> >> We need people to gather and document opportunities; grant writers; and >> proposals for what to fund. >> >> Some people think that this is still a bad time to ask for money, but I >> hear that corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars of cash >> equivalents. > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > <a ymailto="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. 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