Feed the Future SAWBO RAPID (Scientific Animations Without Borders Responsive Adaptive Participatory Information Dissemination)

May 25, 2023

Lead Institution: Michigan State University

Collaborating Institutions: SAWBO, Purdue University, U.S.

Works in: Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, and Niger

Project Overview

Funded through an Associate award to the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Legume Systems Research, SAWBO RAPID serves as an educational intervention program to disseminate crucial information related to COVID-19's secondary economic impacts, including disruption to trade, supply chains and markets.

SAWBO RAPID will ensure that important COVID-19 information will be delivered across borders, cultures and literacy levels by quickly developing educational animations in local languages and using virtual dissemination platforms to reach remote and marginalized communities.

The program also builds on SAWBO's research-to-impact program. The program, with over 33 publications addressing research questions necessary to support SAWBO strategies, is an example of a cutting-edge approach where land grant institutions can take research outcomes to create meaningful impacts in a COVID-19 world.

SAWBO RAPID's COVID-19 response sets the groundwork for a systems approach to educational responses to future global catastrophes and further democratizes information critical to surviving these critical times. SAWBO content, once created, is readily available for anyone or any group to use immediately for educational purposes only – circumventing delays that would occur if they were to have to create their own content to respond to crises. The SAWBO system is focused on providing accurate educational information for people of all literacy levels across as many language groups as possible – content that can be used by other individuals and groups around the world to have impact in this community in real time – allowing for a RAPID response to emerging challenges.

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