Digital Evangelism Issues

Professor Sugata Mitra is the Indian academic who allowed Indian slum children to work out computers for themselves. I’ve long heard of these fascinating ‘hole in the wall’ experiments, and was really interested to watch his story in this TED lecture. (Read more on Professor Mitra and his work.)

It is mind-blowing just how far motivated children can get on their own. What will it be like when affordable tablets are available to many relatively poor Indian kids for education?

The youth challenge

But here’s the challenge. For those kids who will have a web connection through these cheap tablets (or any other route), where will they find evangelistic material that is contextualized for their own culture, language and religion, and assumes they have zero Christian knowledge? There is precious little even for unchurched western young teens, and I know nothing available for Indians in this age bracket. I’d love to be proved wrong, of course. Here’s a major need, for a rapidly growing audience. It should be at the top of our agendas, surely? Visual story, as video shorts, will be major part of this. Please share your thoughts using the ‘Comment’ link below. Check too our other world mission posts.

October Web Evangelism Bulletin

Latest Bulletin is available online. Contents:

• Ebooks – free offer and resources.
• Social networking – ideas for effective use.
• Church websites for outsiders – if we do them right.
• Arts and media – news and comment.
• World we live in – roundup of interesting stuff.
• Conferences – web and mobile related.
• IE Day 2012 – date is set.
• Video storytelling and hashtag request – your advice needed.
• Tech tips & news – just for techies.
• Plus our usual Tailend funnies.

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