{"id":9373,"date":"2013-08-01T12:43:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T16:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/?p=9373"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:43:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:43:55","slug":"real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/real-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Webmaker to tackle real life problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Webmaking is fun<\/strong>. Creating memes and hilarious animated gifs is a great way to spend an afternoon. But sometimes there are more serious issues we’d like to examine \u2014 and webmaking tools like Popcorn<\/a> and Thimble<\/a> can help.
\nEarlier this week, a group of webmakers in Nigeria got together at a Maker Party<\/a> on Bonny Island to explore the theme of “Creating web solutions to real life problems<\/strong>.”
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\nThe event was hosted by Soki Briggs<\/a>, a blogger and Mozilla Rep. Soki also runs Ngbuzz<\/a>, one of Nigeria’s leading online discussion forums.
\nSoki encouraged his participants to brainstorm ideas they could immediately start hacking on, helping them use Thimble and Popcorn to create solutions to challenges like Helping a local business get online<\/a> and Educating the public about how to drive safely<\/a>.
\nThese great projects have got us thinking about other creative ways webmakers are tackling important public issues<\/strong>. Two weeks ago, we put out a call to help UNESCO remix educational videos<\/a> to support school teachers in rural Pakistan. Osman Alper<\/a> answered our request by creating this video on health and hygiene:<\/p>\n

Webmaker quytaro<\/a> created this Thimble page about littering:<\/p>\n

What real life problems would you like to tackle?<\/h3>\n

We’d love to see you take this idea further<\/strong>. What issues are important in your community? You could…<\/p>\n