SamSam

Samsam was a free Dutch magazine for schools and children aged 9 to 13. It's aim is to interest children in the developing countries. Waag Society developed a new website for Samsam, a world on the internet, where kids can play the role of reporter and meet the inhabitants of other countries around the globe.

The Samsam-web expeditionYou enter the Samsam world as reporter. Directly, you are given an envelope with a (secret) mission for an article. By opening the envelope, you are suddenly transported to a country on the other side of the world. You are surrounded by strange languages, sounds of a market, tropical animals and all sorts of buildings.

You also meet other Samsam reporters. With these fellow reporters you are going to seek for information in the Samsam web expedition, on the internet and in the real world.

The first expedition starts 6 march 2008 and will visit Bombay, India.

Targets It is important for the children  that they can imagine what daily life of children in developing countries is like. Therefore, an important task of the Samsam world is to make children conscious of their world citizenship.

For teachers their will be easy ways to find supporting educational material and their will be an archive for those interested to find general information.

Samsam magazine started in 1975 and is published by NCDO in Amsterdam, commissioned by the Ministery of Foreign Affairs. The office is at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam.