Discover a portable media center, unique in its kind, and learn about how you can support the program or acquire your own Ideas Box!
A unique device, the Ideas Box enables access to information, education and culture for populations emerging from humanitarian crisis situations.
The Ideas Box is a great tool for vulnerable populations with little or no access to culture everywhere, including in developed countries.
A powerful tool for reinforcing education and stimulating creativity among students in and out of school, the Ideas Box has been selected by the WISE accelerator.
An Ideas Box that's only 1/6 the size of the original, but that is as close as it gets to the real thing? ...
Four friends — Sébastiane, Clara, Marine and Noémie — and LWB, are bringing "Ideas on the Road" through "Out of the Box" workshops that aim to establish a com...
The last week of November, LWB's Burundi country coordinator for the African Great Lakes Region, Benjamin Gausset, visited the displaced persons camp in the Gom...
Last October, Allister Chang, Executive Director of Libraries Without Borders USA, implemented the Ideas Box at the Cambridge Community Center in Massachusett...
Since the end of October 2014, the Libraries Without Borders team has begun an impact study of the Ideas Box on education in the Bwagiriza refugee camp in Bur...
On October 4th, Jérémy Lachal, Executive Director of LWB / BSF, officially presented the Ideas Box at the TEDx conference held in Paris. ...
In its first year, the WISE project accelerator selected 5 particularly innovative and promising actors in the field of education, among which is our own Id...
A fourth Ideas Box has arrived in the region of Makamba in Burundi!
On October 11, Bibliothèques Sans Frontières participated in French Volunteer Day in Bujumbura, in the presence of His Excellency Gerrit Van-Rossum, the Frenc...
Refugee portrait of Dem’s, slam poetry artist and journalist, living in the Kavumu refugee camp in Burundi since December 2013. ...
On Thursday, September 11, 2014, the Ideas Box were officially inaugurated at the French Institute of Bujumbura, Burundi’s capital. On this occasion, our cou...
The Ideas Box enables access to a large number of contents with different roles depending on the needs of its users. Indeed, there are the contents that we fi...
Writing is a daily, universal activity that should be accessible for everyone everywhere. SIf Ideas Box can provide access to resources and quality content, ...
Libraries Without Borders was in Lyon, France earlier this week to present the Ideas Box during IFLA's 80th Congress and General Assembly. The exhibition took...
The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, a partner of Libraries Without Borders, invited LWB to display the Ideas Box during thei...
The Ideas Box for the Bwagiriza camp in Burundi will be deployed in late July 2014. ...
The Musasa refugee camp in Burundi celebrated World Refugee Day on June 20. This has become an important day every year for not only refugees but also partner...
In commemoration of the Day of the African Child, refugee camps in Burundi had a celebration put on by the Ideas Box. The Musasa camp in Burundi celebrated...
The Ideas Box is a portable media center set up in less than 20 minutes created by the NGO Bibliothèques Sans Frontières / Libraries Without Borders. With a satellite internet connection, tablets, books in paper and electronic format, and a mobile cinema it empowers children and adults alike.
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