December 03, 2004
Kinkajou at IEP in Mali
The DtM team met with Ashoka fellow Maria Diarra Keita at her Institute for Popular Education (IEP), located just outside of Bamako. Teachers at IEP are using a donated Kinkajou in elementary classrooms during the day, providing a valuable new context for pedagogical testing.
IEP is run by Maria, Cheick Oumar Couliabaly, and Debbie Fredo. The first-ever user test of the Kinkajou was by Maria's children, who had a blast playing with the beta prototype for the three hours while the Maria and the DtM team were having dinner.
IEP founders Maria Keita and Cheick Oumar Coulibaly, with Neil
3rd and 4th-grade students crowd around the Kinkajou
