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HIFA Profile: David Cawthorpe is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada. His professional interests include: Human Development, Developmental Psychopathology, and Delivery of low bandwidth medical education curriculum. cawthord AT ucalgary.ca
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New Book Released
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SAWBO researchers release second academic book outlining a detailed approach for mass-scalable educational content to meet sustainable development goals (SDGs)
In a follow-up to the 2023/2024 academic book Gender, Digitalization, and Resilience in International Development: Failing Forward (by Bello-Bravo, J., Medendorp, J., Lutomia, A. and B. R. Pittendrigh) SAWBO researchers released their second book, The Right to Knowledge: A Learning-Systems Approach for the Sustainable Development Goals, in November 2025 [ https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-03360-4 ]
About this book - The Right to Knowledge: A Learning-Systems Approach for the Sustainable Development Goals
This empirically researched and grounded book presents a learning-systems approach for mass-scalable educational content ultimately intended for use across any language, literacy level, culture, or digital divide. The work here is based primarily on Purdue University's Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO) initiative. Addressing the crosscutting issues of resilience, genders, socioeconomic status, geographic isolation, age, and other important development parameters, it provides one answer to how we (as a global development community) should address these issues to meet the SDGs globally and for the good life of people and communities locally. At its core, this is a matter of making timely information available whether by deliberate searching, word-of-mouth/"viral" redistribution, or even "stumbling" across the information, with or without personalized user-targeting. In other words, by reproducing how the Internet already socially "works" (while avoiding how it doesn't work) to deliver information in a deliberate, reliable, and measurable way for outcomes, and especially for overcoming "wicked" development problems, attaining or surpassing SDGs on-schedule, and opening people's access to the good life where they live.
As with our last book, the SAWBO team will be donating copies of this book to university libraries around the world, especially throughout the Global South. The book continues the journey of SAWBO's commitment in making knowledge accessible and relevant for every person across the globe. To learn more about SAWBO visit the website.
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