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- 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
- No Lost Generation Summit Tech Prize
- Sign On For Literacy Prize
- Technology to Support Education in Crises & Conflict Prize
- Tracking & Tracing Books Prize
… results in Children with Disabilities.
eKitabu
Studio KSL helps the deaf community and local content creators in Kenya integrate sign language videos into literacy content.Competition
Sign On For Literacy Prize
Amount Awarded
Up to $250,000
Winner Status
Finalist
Sign On For Literacy Prize
Improving sign language access and learning for deaf children in low-resource contexts
Blog // May 29, 2019ACR GCD innovator Benetech advances as finalist for $10 million award to scale accessible reading platform
ACR GCD funding of Bookshare India project helps position edtech company for Macquarie Group award.
Studio KSL
eKitabu's library of Kenyan Sign Language videos and visual storybooks to support accessible early grade reading.
Rochester Institute of Technology National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Documenting and collecting local sign languages and creating an open-content digital library of folktales offered in an interactive bilingual formatCompetition
Sign On For Literacy Prize
Amount Awarded
Up to $250,000
Winner Status
Finalist
Book Boost: Access for All Challenge
Cost-effective solutions for incorporating accessibility at the onset of book development
Manos Unidas
An interactive corpus of sign language words, a smartphone app, and a literacy outreach program for deaf children and their familiesCompetition
Sign On For Literacy Prize
Amount Awarded
Up to $250,000
Winner Status
Finalist
Accessible Books Consortium Announces Winners of 2019 ABC International Excellence Award
The 2019 winners of the ABC International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing were announced at the awards ceremony held at the London Book Fair.
Enuma
The Sign On For Literacy prize sought technology-based innovations that increase literacy outcomes for deaf children in low resource settings by providing greater access to sign languages, early gradeCompetition
Sign On For Literacy Prize
Amount Awarded
$25,000
Winner Status
Semi-Finalist
You Are Not Your Limitations
Chances are good that if you don’t deal with significant physical disability on a regular basis—whether your own or that of someone you care about.
Gallaudet University Motion Light Lab, Visual Language and Visual Learning
SignShare, an open-source digital platform that enables users to create and share signed stories and resources.Competition
Sign On For Literacy Prize
Amount Awarded
$25,000
Winner Status
Semi-Finalist
Asafeer Education Technologies
100 inspiring STEM storybook templates and illustrations for Arabic speaking children and for global translation and use.Competition
No Lost Generation Summit Tech Prize
Amount Awarded
$100,000
Winner Status
Winner
eKitabu advances in All Children Reading Grand Challenge prize to improve literacy outcomes for deaf children
eKitabu, Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Institute for the Deaf (RIT/NTID) and Manos Unidas will advance as finalists of the Sign On For Literacy prize.
SIL LEAD, Inc.
Enhancing Bloom software with accessibility features to allow users to create “born accessible” reading materials in underserved languages.Competition
Book Boost: Access for All Challenge
Amount Awarded
$162,000
Winner Status
Winner
The App That Changes Everything?
It seems like every few weeks we hear about some exciting new innovation in computer technology—a brand-new application that (at least according to the advertising hype) will upend life as we know i
eKitabu
Catalyzing the born accessible book chain to create a library of open source, accessible digital titles and providing an open standards based toolkit for local content developers.Competition
Book Boost: Access for All Challenge
Amount Awarded
$162,000
Winner Status
Winner
Blog // February 5, 2019Three innovators to field test solutions to improve literacy outcomes for deaf children in developing countries
Three innovations rose to the top of our Sign On For Literacy competition to source technology solutions that increase access to local sign languages.
The Asia Foundation
Library platforms and book collections accessible to children who are blind/low vision.Competition
Book Boost: Access for All Challenge
Amount Awarded
$12,000
Winner Status
Semi-Finalist
Now THAT’S a library!
The Library of Congress in Washington D.C. is easily the largest library in the entire world. It has over 167 million items on approximately 838 miles of bookshelves.Grant Competition (2014)
Addressing problems that keep children from learning with effective, low-cost, technology-based innovations