Project information
| Status | Finalist |
| URL | Go to website |
| Category | Culture |
| Country | Egypt |
| Operational areas | Urban |
| Target groups | Children |
| Fixed connection | DSL, IDSN |
| Wireless connection | WiFi, WiMax |
| Access points | Home, School, Library, Cafe |
| Interact | Desktop Computer, Laptop |
| Software License Types | Proprietary |
Project location
Random images Challenge 2008
Virtual Information Technology Institute for Kids
- Brief description
VITI4kids is a multimedia edutainment website for Arab kids in the age group 4 to 9 years, that aims at building up their computer and IT knowledge.
- Vision, Objectives and Goals
VISION:
Building a Total Quality Character starting from the early formative years of kid's life, by creating an edutainment website in Arabic to help kids in the 4 to 9 years age group to acquire the: Basic IT Knowledge, Artistic Skills (Music, Paint, and Writing), and the required level of general knowledge, by building-up the computer skills of the kids and fulfilling the modern “edutainment” concept that mixes education and entertainment.
OBJECTIVES:
- To invest in the future of Arab children by producing a state-of-the-art multimedia production that will act as their gateway for continuous development.
- To demonstrate the effectiveness of multimedia in child education which shall eventually expand, given the recent government and political leadership initiatives to increase and greatly enhance accessibility to computers by lower-income families and students.
- To safeguard the Arab national and cultural identity by promoting the use of an original cultural environment for kids, that would indirectly breed cultural comfort and satisfaction.
- To promote IT literacy for Arab kids and introduce them to new technologies in their everyday life, by taking the first steps in the way of strengthening the nexus between children and the latest technology from their early childhood; and aligning them with the rapid proliferation and fast-paced change within the technology arena.
- To emphasize Egypt's leadership in the Arab world, by producing an e-learning solution for Arab children to increase their knowledge of the Egyptian culture and media heritage.
GOAL:
To make VITI4kids the default homepage and an everyday habit for all Arab kids.
- How does ICT contribute to the organisational objectives
- Nowadays Information Technology plays a major role in the process of modern education. As software industry prospers, children’s use of this technology becomes more sophisticated. Unfortunately, computers, so far, are being utilized in a developmentally inappropriate manner. Educators are not yet inclined towards embodying Internet as a convenient educational assistant media. And the available material lack cultural emphasis and misses the richness of the Egyptian and Arabic culture and heritage. One of the advantages of VITI4Kids website is teaching kids computer basics using ICT technologies in delivering the lessons using the internet. ICT is the way to reach our customers with high speed connection.
- Transferability
Any organization dealing with children can replicate VITI4kids, such as Schools, public libraries, IT clubs, children software companies, satellite TV channels...etc. . It can also be done by small private groups without the need to a government department or something in between.
- Project summary
- VITI4kids is a website that aims at building-up computer skills of Arab kids in the age group 4 to 9 years by fulfilling the modern “edutainment” concept that mixes education and entertainment. The advantage of VITI4kids lies in being a multimedia application website that equivalently encourages boys and girls of the Arab culture to learn about computers in the easiest to grasp, most entertaining, and funniest way. VITI4kids as well provides basic knowledge and ethics through its entertainment corners. Moreover, VITI4kids understands that children with hearing disabilities are potential internet surfers; hence it also offers its content in the visual sign-language format.
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