Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

Luabooks


Description

The mission of Luabooks is to link reading with technology. Luabooks is a Colombian publishing house that offers children, parents, and teachers deep stories that invite you to know and transform the world. They are multi-language, animated, narrated and musicalized books that reconcile new technologies and reading. Luabooks makes paper books that are animated with a cell phone. The goal is to capture new readers and those who are no longer attracted to traditional reading. They also develop interactive books, animated shorts and mobile applications. In the vision and production scheme of Luabooks, technological advances are at the service of the construction of meaning through all communication channels of people: our books can be read, see, listen, touch, build and narrate. The books have a noticeable electronic content. This editorial is revolutionizing the children's book industry in Colombia.

Project website

http://www.luabooks.com/apps/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C7. E-learning 2019
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 4: Quality education

Global digital compact (GDC) objectives related to this project None

Coverage
  • Colombia

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2011

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • children, parents, and teachers

Replicability

Developing many other books


Sustainability

Buy the selling of the books


WSIS values promotion

It promotes the use of technology for learning.


Entity name

Luabooks

Entity country—type

Colombia Civil Society

Entity website

http://www.luabooks.com/apps/