ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the impact social memory technology can have on handling the many social challenges in the developing world such as literacy, digital inclusion, community involvement and informal knowledge. It contains many aspects that deserve more in-depth reflection. The Jewish community wanted to share their memories with young people. By reading history books and watching documentaries, only known pathways of socially acceptable cultural memories would have been trodden by these young people, whereas a digital literacy enabled through personal memory making opened up new pathways for exploration and creative knowledge transfer. The challenges for education in Brazil are numerous and arise from its colonial inheritance which, until recently, brought with it a deep-seated social inequality. The methodology of digital storytelling developed by Joe Lambert and the Center of Digital Storytelling, California, was incorporated because it showed itself to be a powerful tool for the cohesion of the movement.
