There are opportunities for learning through picture messaging one’s own surroundings and distributing content to a local network of like-minded participants.
A Mobile and Socially-Supported System as an Aid to Learning How to Read and Write in Developing Nations
Tagging the Village
One of the key components to the Sharing the Knowledge system is that all the learning material is self-generated. Participants in a local community network have the ability to tag their own picture messages with labels describing them, and then the ability to share them with everybody else. The materials generated are seamlessly reflective of and finds relevance with their everyday lives, and constitutes recurrent prompting from friends and family as means of supportive encouragement.