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PSGN is a global open network distributing mlearning-based edutainment solutions to places where there are no schools. This project is to help extremely underserved children develop literacy, numeracy, and life-skills to participate in global information, knowledge, and creative content economy. The philosophy for this is "everyone can learn and contribute to world peace and prosperity." This is initiated by a Stanford spin-off non-profit 501.C.3. named XRI Global. We believe in mobile empowerment and global open network. Mobile innovations such as m-money, m-commerce, and m-learning are certainly making inroads to the 3rd world and there are many efforts to connect "the other 3 billion" as well. We would like to create an open network environment where everyone can learn and become an entrepreneur. This means a child in Rwanda can learn to write a series of mobile blog stories (e.g., Harry Potter story ) to distribute to the world and generate revenues. A Congolese child in a refuge camp can sell his time by engaging in free French conversation for a French class in Palo Alto high school. A high school student in Guatemala can serve as a mobile video reporter for a major news brokerage firm reporting a recent flood in the region and the aftermath. The consumers in the other side of the world can simply pay a token of fractional money (e.g., 0.1 cent) for the content directly to the source generator with airtime minutes or m-money. The content providers compete to generate better contents and earn better rating like e-bay sellers would do. The consumers feel great to spend almost nothing to get real good information, knowledge, or creative content. The children and people who see the money generating opportunities in the nationhood will be more motivated to learn to write and compete. A fraction of the trading transactions will pay for the infrastructure and relevant brokerage services (m-paypal, m-cnn, m-blockbuster, etc.). The local revenues will boost the local economy and mitigate reasons for geography-specific conflicts. World consumers will enjoy more dynamic, real, and edutainment content with good sense of global citizenship. PocketSchool Global Network is to support the equal knowledge and creative content economy which will lead to shared prosperity and peace.
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