Tag: learning

CareZone

CAREZONE (UK Treasury and Local Authorities in England and Wales)

The average UK child moves home twice between the ages of 0-18. One in seven children in care moved home three times in 2001-2002 alone. Despite improvements in care, the result is that children suffer a lack of permanence, stability and emotional support; friendships are lost, education is derailed and support networks are broken.

The Who Cares? Trust, a national charity that aims to improve the lives of children in care, identified this need and developed CareZone, the world’s first secure online services for these vulnerable and under-resourced children, to help them achieve their potential. This next generation service combined virtual worlds, two factor authentication, smart agents and much else in new ways.  metaLAB were the lead advisers to the Trust from inception to pilot implementation.

Digital Doorways

A South African joint initiative between the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the CSIR that has as its vision to make a fundamental difference to computer literacy and associated skills in Africa. We envisage this happening through the innovative approach of minimally invasive education (MIE).

MIE differs fundamentally from other ICT provision interventions in that it holds that everyone has the inherent cognitive ability to teach themselves, provided computers can be made easily accessible to potential learners and an environment can be created in which they can learn through experimenting.

Between 2003-2009 metaLAB worked with the Project Team to create a replicable and sustainable Business model that will support the roll out of up to 35,000 units across the country within 5 years. Now in 6 other African countries.