Globe Smart Kids ibelieves that transformative social change starts in a child’s imagination. Our mission is to make the foreign feel familiar to children worldwide. We do that by offering programs that translate academic research on intergroup contact into digital play experiences for young children, designed to help them grow up feeling safe, happy and excited about interacting with diverse others. One Globe Kids is our core program. The One Globe Kids program is an innovative simulated friendship experience for young children, currently including: ‘My Country’ stories, interactive activities, and education resources.
Core Challenge
The more children we reach around the world and the better we can make One Globe Kids feel like a true friendship experience, the more impact the program will have. We are a small team of remote working changemakers around the world. Difficulties that have prevented the tech projects from moving forward faster: secure funding for tech updates, time and lack of expert tech knowledge.
Projects
Replace Flash: One Globe Kids interactive stories and friendship activities are used by schools, children age 4-10, K-5, on notebooks, smartboards and tablets. They currently only work with up to date Flash player installed. This prevents some schools from using the program and makes access on tablets impossible. The goal of this project is to rebuild the online One Globe Kids friends platform, replace Flash and make it all responsive.
Flash makes the platform outdated and unusable for some. Replacing Flash and rebuilding the platform will make One Globe Kids accessible in all browsers and on more devices. At the same time, it might also be an opportunity to update the look and feel of it all. An updated friendship experience will increase the impact of One Globe Kids on prejudice and bias in young children, will help Globe Smart Kids generate more program income and reach more children around the world.
Core Skills Needed
Frontend web-developer, with skills in JAVAScript, HTML5, CakePHP and frameworks like Angular, React, jQuery or similar
Current Tech Stack
The website is a combination of Wordpress & Memberpress linked to a custom made One Globe Kids friends platform with custom made CMS, incl: LAMP, Javascript, jQuery, CakePHP, HTML, CSS. And Flash.
The custom CMS is also input for the iOS apps that are currently in the Apple App Store.
What to expect?
Sign up to try One Globe Kids for free at www.oneglobekids.org and you will get access to two friends: Larasati in Indonesia and Valdo in Haiti. We have done some UX research with both children and adults. We have a wishlist of changes and you will probably find things to add. However, replacing Flash is the core of this project. We would love to hear from you how you would approach this rebuild and are open to your ideas. We communicate best via Slack and/or Basecamp. We practice what we preach, expect to work with an international team: different humor, accents, time zones and paper sizes. And lots of chats about good food.
Project contact Sanny Zuiderveld, Co-Founder and Director of Marketing and Technology
Globe Smart Kids ibelieves that transformative social change starts in a child’s imagination. Our mission is to make the foreign feel familiar to children worldwide. We do that by offering programs that translate academic research on intergroup contact into digital play experiences for young children, designed to help them grow up feeling safe, happy and excited about interacting with diverse others. One Globe Kids is our core program. The One Globe Kids program is an innovative simulated friendship experience for young children, currently including: ‘My Country’ stories, interactive activities, and education resources.
Core Challenge
The more children we reach around the world and the better we can make One Globe Kids feel like a true friendship experience, the more impact the program will have. We are a small team of remote working changemakers around the world. Difficulties that have prevented the tech projects from moving forward faster: secure funding for tech updates, time and lack of expert tech knowledge.
Projects
Replace Flash: One Globe Kids interactive stories and friendship activities are used by schools, children age 4-10, K-5, on notebooks, smartboards and tablets. They currently only work with up to date Flash player installed. This prevents some schools from using the program and makes access on tablets impossible. The goal of this project is to rebuild the online One Globe Kids friends platform, replace Flash and make it all responsive.
Flash makes the platform outdated and unusable for some. Replacing Flash and rebuilding the platform will make One Globe Kids accessible in all browsers and on more devices. At the same time, it might also be an opportunity to update the look and feel of it all. An updated friendship experience will increase the impact of One Globe Kids on prejudice and bias in young children, will help Globe Smart Kids generate more program income and reach more children around the world.
Core Skills Needed
Frontend web-developer, with skills in JAVAScript, HTML5, CakePHP and frameworks like Angular, React, jQuery or similar
Current Tech Stack
What to expect?
Sign up to try One Globe Kids for free at www.oneglobekids.org and you will get access to two friends: Larasati in Indonesia and Valdo in Haiti. We have done some UX research with both children and adults. We have a wishlist of changes and you will probably find things to add. However, replacing Flash is the core of this project. We would love to hear from you how you would approach this rebuild and are open to your ideas. We communicate best via Slack and/or Basecamp. We practice what we preach, expect to work with an international team: different humor, accents, time zones and paper sizes. And lots of chats about good food.
Project contact Sanny Zuiderveld, Co-Founder and Director of Marketing and Technology