I am sharing below a recent community inquiry in case others have the same questions:
I am working with displaced communities and migrant learners from Myanmar currently living along the Thai–Myanmar border. Due to the ongoing crisis, many people in this region have limited or no access to internet-based education. In response, we are building offline digital learning solutions to provide basic digital literacy, foundational education, and localized learning content.
We came across Kolibri and were deeply inspired by your mission and offline-first approach to equitable education. We believe Kolibri could play a crucial role in our grassroots efforts to empower youth and adults in our communities through digital learning.
We would like to kindly request your support in the following areas:
- Guidance on setting up and running Kolibri on Raspberry Pi-based local servers
- Access to training or documentation for volunteer educators
- Recommendations on creating or adapting localized content (Burmese, Karen, Karenni, etc.)
- Any best practices or tools to help us deploy Kolibri in remote, low-resource environments
We are not seeking formal collaboration at this stage, but rather support and advice that would help us implement Kolibri more effectively in our work.
Thank you for creating such an impactful platform and for supporting education in the world’s most challenging contexts. We hope to hear from you and look forward to any support or guidance you can offer.
Below are some relevant resources that will help with getting started with Kolibri:
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Rapid Raspberry Pi Model Instructions
This guide walks through the hardware requirements, SD card vs. SSD considerations, Wi-Fi setup, and using Kolibri Server on Raspberry Pi. -
Kolibri Installation Guide for Raspberry Pi
This provides the latest step-by-step instructions directly from Learning Equality. -
Kolibri EdTech Toolkit for training others
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We don’t have specific recommendations for creating localized content but we do have a content integration guide for consideration when adding your own resources. Looking ahead, we are working towards better supporting local content creation with upcoming plans to enable enable offline content management, and have been actively developing tools to digitize and align local curricular standards. You can read more about this work in our strategy here.
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Kolibri is designed with low-resource low-connectivity environments in mind. The blended learning and implementation guides in the implementation section of our Toolkit are a good place to start!