International Game Technology (Germany)

Implementing digital learning approaches in fragile contexts offers opportunities and challenges at the same time. The article describes an ongoing project by the German development cooperation organization GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH) with the target to reforest areas of Afghanistan and conduct corresponding capacity building activities in the country. The international and Afghan stakeholders are facing a variety of challenges such as threats on personal safety and security, connectivity, and electricity breakdowns as well as working with a partwise illiterate and digital illiterate target group. The three steps of the capacity building process of the project will be described and explained – the training of trainers, the training of the NGOs, as well as the training of the final target group. Elements of the digital training are gamified and adapted to the Afghan culture, specifically focusing on storytelling, roleplay, as well as social learning.

The computation of the leakage fields is a very important problem for the magnetostatic detection method of defects in ferromagnetic materials. The computation method which we propose is based on the experimentally very well confirmed assumption, that the leakage flux is negligible compared to the main flux in the ferromagnetic plate. Then the computation of the flux distribution in the plate can be reduced to a 2D problem. The leakage field can be calculated subsequently by using a Dirichlet-Green's integral. The method allows the determination of the size and permeability of extended defects in plane parallel plates from leakage field measurement data. >