1. Scientific Animations Without
Borders: Potential
Opportunities for the Shea
Community

2. ?
…INTO ACTION
RESEARCH THROUGH
EDUCATION IN
A VALUE CHAIN

3. …INTO ACTION
RESEARCH THROUGH
EDUCATION IN
A VALUE CHAIN

4. Value Chain
Opportunities
Start End

5. Value Chain
Missed opportunity
Start End

6. Value Chain
Missed opportunity (e.g., postharvest loss)
Start End
Educational step that can
facilitate an opportunity to be
realized

7. Value Chain
Start End
EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
CREATED AND DEPLOYED

8. Outline
• Challenges with educational
programs in rural areas
– Literacy issues, language barriers,
deployment networks
• Scientific Animations Without
Borders
– We develop materials for low-literate
learners in their own languages
– Deployment through existing networks

9. Mission of SAWBO
Provide access to information
and knowledge for target
audiences in their own
language(s)

10. How can we share innovations with
target audiences in their own
languages without the need for
literacy?

11. How?
• Create animated educational materials on
relevant topics
• Local languages
• Systems to share these with educators globally
– so they can share them locally

14. • Diversity of content
• Numerous languages
• Many different
collaborative groups
• Materials are easily
downloaded
• Can be used by many
different educational
groups

16. Voiceovers
• Many different languages and accents

17. Deployment
• Local groups
• Online
• Women’s groups
• Cell phones
• Video viewing
clubs
• Etc…

18. Making Materials Available
1) Partner groups for creation and deployment of
materials in other languages and regions of the
world
2) All materials are given FREE to partner groups

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20. A System for Delivering Innovations
Innovations that
can be taught
Educational
content in
local
SAWBO SYSTEM languages
that can be
used on cell
phones or
other
Script Characters Animations Platforms electronic
developmen Scenery and voice- for delivery devices.
t overs and easy
access to
content

21. A System for Delivering Innovations
Innovations that
can be taught
Educational
content in
local
SAWBO SYSTEM
SAWBO SYSTEM languages
that can be
used on cell
phones or
other
Script Characters Animations Platforms electronic
developmen Scenery and voice- for delivery devices.
t overs and easy
access to
One content
example
In place for Shea innovations video