The World's Children

We were all concerned with children in third world countries, and how they have such a lack of education that it keeps perpetuating the cycle of poverty in the area. We believe that if children in Africa would have solid education then it would help, not completely solve but help the hunger issues, and hopefully create more commerce for certain countries.

However the question is how we educate countries with no money and with many different dialects. Our idea was that if we could have professors and teachers just a few for every school to begin with, but have tele-conferencing technology then the students could still be learning as a mass but in smaller watched groups just with a holographic or computer generated teacher. The other issue that this comes up with is language barriers. So many countries such as Africa have so many countries that the languages are various and very difficult to learn. Which then leads to either teaching a mass group of teachers how to speak 100's of languages or, we could fit out computer systems with language translation software to allow children to use the systems or have lectures and lessons translated to paper and audio from English to the language in that school. This would also allow areas where the population is extremely diverse even here in the US, to teach the same lesson to all students, just aided by this software.

Ideally, we could put these two pieces together to create a system where I teacher could be speaking English into a Web Cam or computer video monitor, and on the other side where the children are listening the lesson comes out at the language specific to that child. Creating more of an ability to teach and create more education opportunities in poorer countries.