A look into the Bridges to the Future Initiative.

The following is a video archive of All Children Reading: An International Literacy Day Event.

Paulo Freire's last public interview, given to Literacy.org in 1996.

Professional Development Kit (PDK) was funded by the U.S Department of Education in collaboration with SRI, International, to create professional development tools for adult educators. Employing case-based instruction in the context of facilitated adult education teacher professional development, PDK can adult educators explore and develop their practice in new ways and to investigate new materials and strategies for instruction. With video case studies of adult education classrooms; online tools for practitioners to structure their own cases; resources that include a knowledge database, digests, portfolio, group discussion and class products; and staff development and user guides; PDK provides resources and a framework to support participants efforts to generate questions and brainstorm solutions to challenging professional situations. PDK is available on CD-ROM, and some of its tools may be accessed online at Literacy.org.

The Bridges to the Future Initiative (BFI-SA) is an innovative project designed to utilize multimedia-based information and communications technologies (ICT) in local languages to promote literacy and other learning skills in South Africa. The project will be implemented initially in multiple sites in Limpopo Province as a model for replication more broadly. BFI-SA is a collaborative multi-agency partnership under the overall sponsorship of the Department of Education.

The International Literacy Institute is a partner of BFI-SA.

Representing a first for South Africa, The International Literacy Institute, in partnership with Molteno Institute for Language and Literacy in South Africa, and under the sponsorship of the South African Department of Education launched on July 23, 2009, the Bridges to the Future Initiative (BFI-SA), a multimedia education programme for the promotion of literacy and other learning skills in South Africa.

The initiative which kicks off in the Limpopo Province - serving as a model for implementation nationwide - will assist to overcome the countrys major illiteracy challenge through the combined power of local (mother-tongue) language learning and multimedia technology.

The easy-to-use multimedia material has been developed to date in Sepedi, Tshivenda, xiTsonga and English, aligned with ABET levels 1 through 3, and also includes computer literacy skills. The BFI-SA soon plans to develop similar materials in the remaining seven official languages which will serve as the platform to reach poor and rural provinces such as Eastern Cape, KwaZulu Natal, Northern Cape, Free State and the Northwest Province.

This video was shot during the March 2017 Learning at the Bottom of the Pyramid Conference at the University of Pennsylvania. Interviewees include:

• Benjamin Piper
• Sarah Howie
• Jorge Sequeira
• Sylvia Schmelkes
• Silvia Montoya
• Brian Maddox
• Shahur Banu Vagh

This video was shot during the March 2017 Learning at the Bottom of the Pyramid Conference at the University of Pennsylvania. Interviewees include:

• Benjamin Piper
• Sarah Howie
• Jorge Sequeira
• Silvia Montoya
• Brian Maddox
• Shahur Banu Vagh