Talk Intermediate First Talk

Pratham Books' StoryWeaver

Approved

Session Description

Pratham Books StoryWeaver is a repository of high quality, openly licensed multilingual storybooks for children sourced from global publishers and communities. It's India's first DPG for early reading.

Every book is freely available in multiple formats, can be read online, translated into any language, repurposed and, keeping in mind the digital divide, can also be read offline, downloaded, printed, so that no child is left behind.

It currently hosts more than 66K storybooks in 370+ languages, making it one of the largest repositories of storybooks in the world.

StoryWeaver's code was also made open for community to use, adapt and share.

We are here to talk about opportunities to collaborate

Key Takeaways

1> Learn about Pratham Books and StoryWeaver's journey with open licensing for Multilingual Children's literature

2> Tech stack involved and potential areas of collaboration for open source community

References

https://storyweaver.org.in/en

https://open.storyweaver.org.in/

Session Categories

Community

Knowledge Commons (Open Hardware, Open Science, Open Data etc.)

Speakers

Suman Vijeta

Associate Director, Product Implementations | Pratham Books

Responsible for Engineering and IT projects at Pratham Books.

Reviews

Reviewer #1 Approved

Reviewer #2 Approved

It would be interesting to know why this happened in 2019 but there has been little to no development since then.

Are there hopes for expansion of the program? With the rise of AI it would be interesting how much more high-quality content could be created for early literacy. If contributors could add more languages and stories to the platform, etc.

Reviewer #3 Approved