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- Begin With Books
- Big Ideas@Berkeley 2014/15 Prize
- Big Ideas@Berkeley 2015/16 Prize
- Book Boost: Access for All Challenge
- EduApp4Syria Prize
- Enabling Writers Prize
- Grant Competition 2011
- Grant Competition 2014
- Leaders for Literacy
- No Lost Generation Summit Tech Prize
- Ready2Read Challenge
- Sign On For Literacy Prize
- Technology to Support Education in Crises & Conflict Prize
- Tracking & Tracing Books Prize
- UnrestrICTed Challenge
… results.
All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development Announces Winners of Literacy Innovations Competition
Fourteen winning innovations represent the most promising, creative and impactful solutions in literacy and were chosen from a competitive process that elicited 213 proposals from 50 countries.Alpha Test Report
Overview of alpha field testing of software applications funded by ACR GCD's Tracking and Tracing Books prize competition to support the delivery of textbooks to schools in rural Malawi.All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development competition seeks innovations to reach students in conflict and crisis zones
New prize to source ideas for innovative, technology-supported approaches for children to maintain access to basic education despite disruptions experienced during crisis or conflict.Makhalidwe Athu: A mobile storytelling innovation for early-grade reading in Zambia
ACR GCD-funded innovator Creative Associates provides a brief overview of its Makhalidwe Athu (Our Way of Staying) early grade reading project in rural Zambia.This village school in Haiti helped propel a national movement to teach kids in Creole
Frandy Calixte is an 11-year-old boy who lives in a small village on the drought-prone island of Lagonav, Haiti. Sitting outside his house with his mother and teacher...Makhalidwe Athu: Creative’s mStories Model
ACR GCD-funded innovator Creative Associates shares how it developed its innovative approach for creating mobile stories to address literacy challenges in rural Zambia.10 Incredible tech innovations from 2014 that will benefit humanity
We may not have flying cars or teleportation devices yet, but we do have some incredible technologies that are helping to make the world a better place.Mobile reading project brings local tales home
ACR GCD-funded innovator Creative Associates shares more about its 18-month Makhalidwe Athu project to improve the reading skills of more than 1,200 students in Zambia's eastern province.- ACR GCD in the News // The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine // October 1, 2014
Tools and resources to improve deaf educational access to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
This research project will address the challenging research problem of meeting the educational needs of the deaf, who are underserved in education in general, and in STEM literacy, in particular. Seven Year Old Haitian Girl Reads Her Mother Tongue Book
A seven-year-old girl on the island of Lagonav reads her own book that she illustrated and wrote in Creole.All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development Joins Big Ideas@Berkeley Competition
ACR GCD's partnership with University of California, Berkeley, to launch a “Mobiles for Reading” category within the annual Big Ideas@Berkeley competition.Mother tongue books (MTB) on Google play
A collection of digital books written by children for children & translated into other languages.The winners of the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes 2014
The jury of the UNESCO International Literacy Prize commends the Bridges to the Future Initiative in South Africa and its partners for their work in South Africa.Olinga Foundation for Human Development
Oligna Foundation for Human Development shares the ACR GCD-funded results of their project focused on teacher training to improve reading outcomes for children in Ghana.Four mobile-based tools that can bring education to millions
Access to good quality learning is still denied to millions around the world, particularly in developing countries where teaching standards and education facilities are often poor.Kampuchean Action for Primary Education / Ul Run
ACR GCD-funded innovator Kampuchean Action for Primary Education shares their innovation to create local language e-books with interactive features for children in Cambodia.Gaining Access to Books through Bloom
A few weeks ago volunteers in a remote area of Papua New Guinea delivered new books designed with the book creation technology, Bloom.Viamo
An interactive, personalized and measurable platform to engage students on basic mobile phones through interactive voice response (IVR).Ayikai Doblo, Achiaman primary schools win education awareness program
The 2nd edition of Ghana Reads, an education awareness program, has ended with Ayikai Doblo M/A Primary School and Achiaman M/A Primary School all in the Ga West Municipality.Agora Center, the University of Jyväskylä / Emma Ojanen
ACR GCD-funded innovator Agora Center shares their innovation to use a mobile reading game to improve children's reading skills and certify Zambia teachers in local language literacy instruction.
