 If anybody is interested in getting a device, they can talk right? Sorry for taking your time. So my name is Ruby Dameshi Brown from Ghana. And I'm the Senior Programs Officer at the Open Foundation West Africa. I'm here with my colleague, Eugene. Eugene Masikou, Communications Officer at the Open Foundation West Africa. And some Kiwis and Basades, we have Pearl. Pearl, you can introduce yourself. I think Aizelou and then Carol. Yeah. So today we're here to share with you how we've been going about the Kiwis for School Projects. Some of you may be curious how, why is it that we're interested in this project? And what are we doing with it? So this project, you know, as we can meet the ends, we've been contributing to a lot of projects that are online. And most of the time, they are very useful information that students can use. But then because of Internet challenges, we are not able to assess this kind of content. So we're thinking, how can they assess the content for the educational purposes? And so we came up with the Kiwis for Schools. And just to talk, this presentation will share with you how we've been going about that project, just in case some of you want to establish similar projects in your community. I think one of the things that have really inspired us to do this project also is because we're seeing that Internet is a human right. And also the UN has proclaimed 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to the information. I mean, information online, but why are we not still able to assess information despite of all this legislation that has been established? And so we're also seeing that the Internet penetration rate in Africa is kind of like still a challenge. Although we've reached about 43%, there's still a long way to go. But even with the progress that have been made, we also realize that there are a lot of challenges that still persist, and that has to do with high Internet costs. Because in the places that we have Internet, we're seeing that Internet cost is also a big challenge. And so another interesting challenge that we've seen in our part of the world is the fact that devices are expensive. Not every student has access to devices. Not every parent can afford devices for their kids. And so for most school students, they rely on the devices that they use in school and not at home. And another interesting thing is the digital device. If you come to the urban areas, you define student having access to devices then when you go to the rural areas. So there are a whole lot of challenges. And one interesting research that was done by Statistica some few years ago, somewhere in 2021, we realized how expensive Internet data bundle is in Africa. And even, for example, in the Central Africa Republic, Internet costs one gigabyte. And all of us know how many gigabytes we need every month. One gigabyte is equivalent to 24% of an average income of the people in that country. And this is not just the country. There are a lot of countries in Africa that cannot match up with the cost of Internet. And so they would rather not be online. And we also see another research that's saying that we need about 428 million to solve Internet connectivity issues, billions. I don't know when that is going to happen. So while we are not waiting for that, we realize that when the pandemic happened, we sort of like try to adjust to work on things online. And we realized that even in the Wikimedia movement, we saw a dramatic shift even in our community because people were not comfortable with online stuff. They always wanted in person, but it looks like now people actually prefer the online trainings. They like to attend events online than even in person. Okay, so even though COVID is not so much of a good thing, but it brought that kind of innovation and adaptation into the new way of life. And let me go to the next slide. So what exactly is K-Wix? A lot of people will be wondering what is K-Wix? What is it about? So K-Wix is a free open source offline web browser that brings Internet connectivity to millions around the world. So it's a software sort of like if you download an app or something like that. So it allows you to read online content offline. So once you download, we'll demonstrate it to you so that everybody can go back home knowing how to navigate the K-Wix software. So what that means is that it allows you to browse online content offline. Okay, so any kind of online content, whether it's a YouTube video, whether it's a website, whatever it is, you can turn it and use it offline. Okay. So some of the content that we make available on K-Wix, especially for students, tech, ed, vet, biography, chemistry, physics, English, vocationary, Wikipedia, and Wikipedia is so big. So we don't try to put everything on it, but we try to be selective. Like if it's about medical stuff, then we're going from wicked med, or if it's about biology, we're going for biology. Okay, so we try to tailor it to specific content, depending on who is using it. So K-Wix, someone wonder who actually, what about K-Wix? Actually, we at Open Foundation is not the one creating K-Wix, but there's an organization called K-Wix as well. So if you go online, you can be able to have, read more about them. It's not a non-profit organization. So talking about the K-Wix for School project, how we're going about it. This started as a volunteer activity, like random volunteer activities. And I think the first person who introduced K-Wix in the African continent was Felix Natty. That was way back in 2016. And we had other volunteers like Maxwell also doing volunteer activities with K-Wix. Then we saw that this actually is a very good and useful thing. So why don't we turn it into a program, train people, more volunteers to be able to take K-Wix to their schools. And so we looked at, we didn't just go and do it, but we tried to pilot it to understand how useful that is for schools. Before we turn, we actually like go into making it a program. And we realized that even through K-Wix, we are trying to even create awareness of Wikipedia because a lot of people still didn't know anything about Wikipedia. So through K-Wix, we are able to introduce students to Wikipedia and its open platform to sort of like create awareness, get them to thinking about it before they get to university. Because most of the people who are even at the university don't even know there's a community behind Wikipedia, even though we're using it. Okay, so this is a very great way. We also realized that nobody, like actually most of the people don't know that there's something like that that exists, that they could use in their schools. So yeah. So how we have done it, we did it through a K-Wix mini fund program. So what we do is that we leverage on volunteer capacity because of how we want to sustain the program. The program is modeled around volunteers. And so what we do is that we reach out to volunteers in our community who are interested to do an education programs because realize that not everybody is interested in the same projects in the Wikipedia movement. And there are people who are also passionate about education projects and we want to take that opportunity to schools in their communities. And so we reach out with a K-Wix mini fund program where volunteers apply to be trained. So once they apply, we train them. We take them through how they can navigate the K-Wix platform. We give them that training and what they can train the students when they get to the school. And we also support them with a mini fund that supports their transportation and basic feeding and all of that because if you have to travel to your school and talk to teachers, try to install it. I mean, volunteers time and all of that. So that's how we've modeled the program around capacity building, showing them how to go about it, empowering them, and they also taking it into the school. And through this, we have volunteer spread across Ghana. So we realize that by giving each volunteer the opportunity in different regions, we've been able to impact this project in their respective regions. Okay, so that nobody have to travel from the northern region to southern region to do K-Wix. That's going to cost us a lot of money, but rather those in the communities were empowered to do that. So there are interesting things that we've learned and I want to share them with you. For the past two years, and I think this is the third year we still trying to gather data for this year, but for 2021 and 2022, we've been able to train about 777 students on how to use K-Wix because when they take K-Wix to the schools, the volunteers need to train them on how to navigate it on the computers in their school. So we've been able to train 777 students looking at the gender disparities. I think it's kind of close. And another thing that we also realize in the number of computers is about 395 that we've installed so far. And we also try to take some statistics about whether they use the internet, whether they've heard about Wikipedia, whether they've heard about K-Wix, and these are the statistics that you're seeing, those that said yes and those that said no. Okay. And we also seen a very sharp gap, a dramatic gap between the students' population versus computer usage. We realized that, sorry, versus working computer, we realized that, and as much as we want to do this, there are not many devices to serve the students' population. We have very few devices, yet huge student population, and that's what we face almost all the places that we've been to. Okay, so this is also very critical. And I think we also reached out to K-Wix to connect us with partners that donate computers. So these are some of the things, ways that we want to solve this kind of problem like the organizations that donate laptops and all of that. And I think these kind of partnerships are something that are really beneficial to solve some of these issues. So this is a ratio I'm talking about. So you look at huge, so this is the student population, and this is the number of computers that is serving the population. Okay, so there's that kind of huge gap. So let me go forward. So there are other challenges that we're also encountering during this project. And apart from the homage students to computer ratios, we are also seeing localized content is also a problem because a lot of the contents that the students actually need. They have general contents that can complement their education, that can help them to do research, but students also need the kind of localized content that their teachers are teaching them. And so we're also seeing that gap. And I think Wikimedia, we're also doing some project, the Wikidata for Education project, trying to model the Ghanaian curriculum on Wikidata. We're hoping that some of these projects like this can help to solve those kind of challenges. Then some of the content not supported. So you would need to look at content that you can, there was one past question that we're trying to turn into as in file, the way that it was created, that website was created, it's not compatible for. And also you need to be careful with copyright because if the website is not so open and you can run into issues if that person gets to know that maybe you're using that website without permission or something like that. So you might want to also be careful with copyright. So beyond Ghana, this year we launched the Careers for School African Mentorship Program. When we did our session in Wikidata last year, we realized that a lot of African communities saw the need for a program like this in their community. And so we thought that why don't we give opportunity to other African communities to also participate, build capacity, get to know what it is and how to navigate it. And so we launched the Careers for School African Mentorship Program and we have out of the 100 people that were enrolled on this program, we had 64 participants from training countries that have been trained and Careers ambassadors trying to do some of the similar projects in their communities. So currently we are piloting the project in South Sudan, Nigeria, Dia, Congo, Burundi, Tanzania. Yeah, we have Peggy who is here to do some practical demonstration for us as an ambassador because we want to, you know, give the opportunity for ambassadors to show the world that they know how to do what they know how to do best. So there are lots of learnings. I think if you get access to the slide, you can be able to read some of the things that people have learned from the program and what you're seeing about it. So how we went about the program, we adopted a self-paced platform and the reason why we adopted that kind of hybrid model was because of different time zones. And as we're here, it's about 4 p.m. and I think it's like morning or something like that in Ghana. And so, I mean, we all have different time zones. We cannot force everyone to attend a live session. So we adopted that kind of part when it was kind of helpful when we took the feedback. These are some of the feedback, 90%. So the self-paced learning platform as a very instrumental way of impacting and bringing them in the program. And the platform had videos. So it had the text and it also had videos to train people. So those are really interested to explore that platform and give us your feedback. We'd be happy. And also, we also learned that there's a learning platform also in Wikimedia. So we want to explore that as well for the next training to see how that can also be helpful for the Wikimedia community so that everyone can also, I mean, take the course themselves and then see how it can help them. Yeah, so I don't want to go through the feedback, all this feedback, but I want to also give the opportunity to, usually to talk to you about the book exchange, both briefly. And maybe some of you can get an idea of what it is. But in the meantime, Peggy, let's do the practicals. So thank you Ruby. I think we should welcome Ruby. We did a good job. Thank you. And then Peggy would, I'll just briefly talk about the book exchange booth and then Peggy will go straight into their practicals and how exactly we can install QX. So as an open organization, we realized that there's a huge gap with regards to reading in Ghana, because there was the statistics that said that out of 10 children in Ghana, about only three people are actively reading. And we saw it as a challenge. So our co-founders, one of our co-founders traveled outside the country, he went to Czech Republic, and he saw a booth, he came across a booth. And he noticed that people were just standing by the booth and then opening books. He didn't, you know, understand why we're doing that. So he went to inquire. When he went there, he realized that people actually place books in the booth for free and other people can also, you know, come and take the books just in case they need them. So we adopted that style and realized that since we are trying to bridge the reading culture gap in Ghana, why not do something like this. So we had a structure in our office, a wooden structure, but realized that it couldn't see the theme we wanted. So we had to deploy the services of a carpenter. We gave him the design, he painted it beautifully to the color of pink. So we just created a poster called the Book Exchange booth on the right. You can see Donate's book on the left. You can see, pick a book. So we pitched this idea to some educational institutions. So we got a partnership with a bookstore called the EPP Books. So they donated some books to us. So with our first project, we used the books that EPP Books donated to us. We also got a donation of books from Ara Ghana. Ara also gave us books that we could also put in the booth. So we put the booth at the mall and we're happy to partner with a children's store at the mall, mainly because most of the books were related to educational stuff. And you know if you would want to build the foundation of a child or the educational foundation of a child, you might start to watch a book. So we realized that this partnership with Ara Shop was the perfect partnership for us. So we situated the booth at their shop where we see a lot of kids just patronizing the book. So this is just a brief, you know, intro about the Book Exchange. But if you want more information about that, you can contact any of us. Thank you so much. So we're just going to demonstrate to you briefly how you can download K-Wax yourself and how you can turn on online content offline. So a brief demonstration and then, I mean, you don't necessarily need a rapsberry pie to have K-Wax, but you can have K-Wax on your pen drive or on your computer. Hi everyone, my name is Pelagia from Tanzania. I'm from Tanzania. So I'll take you direct to how to download the K-Wax, how to have it in your phone or your PC. For today, I'll do a demonstration on how to have it on your PC. So first thing, you have to go to the website. You just write K-Wax.org. Listen. Once you're in there, you have to go to download. Then before download, you have to check. K-Wax, it has two things. First, you have to download the reader. Then second, you have to download the content. So for the first, you have to go for a reader. You go here, reader. So if you want to, you have to select, like, which platform do you want to download? Do you have a phone or window or Mac or Linux as an operating system or browser or rapsberry pie? So for us today, my laptop is in a window format. My operating system is window. So if you want to know where you want to download your K-Wax, you have to check operating system of your device. So I want to download for Windows. So you just select window. Then after that, you have to check the processor, like we say, like a processor type. If you want to know, like, your PC or processor type of your machine, you have to go to this PC. You right-click it. Then properties. This one here. Mine is 64-bit. So you go direct for 64-bit. Just click 64. Then here you go. Just check it's downloading. While it's downloading, you can find our file. I mean, the file is in zip format. So you have to, once it's done, you have to unzip it. It is zipped. So if it's a window device, you need to have a win zip. And for Mac, you just need to double-click it and it will open. So once it's downloading, we know this is just a reader. Then later on, we'll go to download that for the content. Then later on, you need to download that content to access it offline. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll go through. Yeah, it's almost there. So while it's downloading, at the end, once it's done, you need to find out, like, a destination of your folder. Some other things can go to download or C drive. So for hours, once then, we have to check, like, where's the downloaded content? Like a destination. So it's done. You click on the folder icon. You find your, like, it's in C drive. We call it C drive. It's also in download. So as you see, this file is in, it's zipped. So you need to unzip it. So if you want to unzip first, you need to find a location to destination for your unzipped file. So I need to create, like, a folder in the desktop. I'll call it, let's say, QA and zip. Thereafter, I'll go to my zip, my downloads, let's say, then I'll right click the zip file, then extract file. You have to extract it. Then you find out the destination, like a, I created a folder on the desktop. So you find the destination. I called it QA and zip. So you just select, then open. My file was in desktop. Once it's done, you find, like, the file, the folder, it should be, like, unzipped. So you just open it. Just open it. And you have to find, like, a QA icon. We call it a executable file. Once you open it, it's like you can open the tool software. So you just find the QA icon. Then you double click it. This is my previous work. So I have to remove the content. Yeah. Once done, this is the QA software. This is the reader. It comes with no content. So once it's done, you need to find a content to be there so that you access it offline with no internet later. So we're done with the reader. We go back for the content. Are we good? Yeah. So we go back to the content. Just go to the same website, kwix.org, let me go back, .org, then go to download content. We now go to content. Now you need to have, like, you need to access content to which you want. You want to access content for work dictionary, let's say Wikipedia. For example, let's say Wikipedia content. Yeah, we have so many files. Like in general, Wikipedia, we have more than 100 GB. So when we start to download 100 GB too huge, so we just find a small file. Like, let's say we go for, let's say we go for week dictionary. We find a small file. You can find just a small size file like this one. We go to download. Then if you want to download just direct, you go to direct, it will download. Just a small file, so it won't take so long. So we're done. Here's the file. You find it in download. So once we're done with the content downloading, you just go to the reader. Now we need to access content offline. So go to the reader, kwix. Then you just click to this icon. Then you go to your content now. Have idea. So you just click this icon from kwix reader. Then you just, you have to access the content which you want to access offline. We downloaded this file with dictionary. So just click it and open. Here we are. Here we are offline. We just connected the wifi, but you don't need internet to access this file. Now we are offline. We're not using internet to access the content. Yeah, there we are. So there's also the question that he asked, how do you turn into Zivva? We're going to go there. Yeah. Yeah. So if you have a link online, show us. To make a Zivva file, you just go to, like I said, it's known as Zimmit. Just write Zimmit. Zimmit. First you have to copy a website which you want to Zimmit. As we later we deal with Khan Academy for students later. Khan Academy, it has so many things for studies. So you just choose what you want to Zimmit. So let's say you want to Zim this pre-grade academic kids. It's a learning site. So you just, it's according to what you want to Zim. So let's say you want to Zim Khan Academy for kids. Just copy your website, I mean the site. You copy. Then you go to Zimmit. You paste that. Then you have to write your email. So that once it's done, they will, like, yeah, yeah. Let's Zim it. So here, like, it depends on the size of the content. It may take some time to, like, to reply back. Like, this is done. Let me give it as an example. We did this for Khan Academy. Once they're done, you will get this kind of an email. Yes, yes. Once it's done. I think, I think for Merging, you can't merge them. But what you can do is that you can categorize them in your K-Wix reader. Just to make it easier for the reviewer. Yes. And note that it has to be under open lines. Because, yes, to avoid any, you know, issues. Some of the content on K-Wix itself has been Zimmed already. So what you need to do is just download it. So if they are useful for you, you can just download it. But then, if they are websites that you think are also very useful, but are not zipped already, then this is a producer. Zim it. Zim it. So that's what you request for offline downloads. Yeah. So it could be YouTube videos. It could be, like, anything that works. Yeah. Yeah, you might yourself. Hello. Okay. I said, is it possible to Zim just a course, not all the Khan Academy contents? I don't know. Is it possible to do it? Yes. So if you look at the, how she went about it, you see Khan Academy website itself can be Zim, the whole entire Khan Academy. But then we don't, I mean, depending on the audience that you're serving, a lot of it might not be useful. So what she did was she selected the site. So for instance, Mars for pretty school. So the URL that allows you to access that is what she sent. Okay. So then you don't ask, you don't have to download the entire Khan Academy. Yeah. Thank you. So for example, on Wikipedia, can I select some articles and try to Zim just this article? Is it possible to do it? Yes. It's very possible. So you go to the article and click that link for the particular article. And it's going to give you the Zim file for that particular article. And that's it. So you can have selected articles for various use. And also to note, to inform you that Cambridge is not just for students or schools. You can use it personally. Okay. So it can be for personal use. It can be for community library, a digital library. Just find any way that works for you. That's my last question. You said for the implementation of the project, the Fresco Roth, you find some gaps like gaps of materials like a PC laptop. For this course, what do you do to ensure that to close this gap and ensure that all this in a school for implementation, all the students will have access to the material and to have access to key risks for their education. Thank you. I think. Thank you so much. I think what we also seen regarding the device challenge device gap. There are not many devices in the school, but we also seen that teachers also really need a content to do their research and they use mobile phones. But the challenge with the way that we are implementing the project is that we use pen drives to install on each computer in the school. So we have to download it in each computer using the pen drive. And that also brings a limitation because if someone bought a phone, they wouldn't be able to assess it. So one of the solutions that we've seen for this kind of challenge is using a Rapsberry Pi, which is sort of like an internet and a box method can be a solution to or a compliment to the work that we're already doing. So with the Rapsberry Pi, if you put it in the school, anybody can just connect to it. And that solves the issue. Yeah. I think you have a last question. Yeah. We're almost done. Just quick question. Actually, he was asking that whether we can have a list of Wikipedia articles, which we can zoom it. So I guess that the best thing will be just create a category, put all the articles in that, and then zoom it. So that's that. And it's a really very cool project and I'm eager to work further up. Yes. Thank you. We're also happy to work with you since you're doing the same thing. Sorry. I think he's the one to say last thing. Okay. Just to add that, I think this is a good chance for us to like to make awareness of Wikipedia and everything which is going on in Wikipedia by being offline. Okay. I'm sorry we are much. No, no, I just wanted to add that what she just said, we that we normally have internet connectivity issue. This is a very great tool to use because with it, you don't need to bother yourself about internet. You don't even need to bother yourself about buying data. So just use the Kiwis app and you're good to go. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for attending the session. So currently this room is going to be used for Muslim prayer. So we will need you to carry your conversation outside. Yeah.