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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 in Children with Disabilities.
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
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
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
Blog // November 28, 2018How a global community of innovators can embrace inclusive EdTech design for children with disabilities
All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development urges global education audience at mEducation Alliance Symposium to incorporate accessibility features at the onset of EdTech development.
Universal Design for Learning to Help All Children Read
USAID's toolkit provides research on how to build a holistic, multi-tiered model of support for children with disabilities within the classroom.
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
6 Ways Education Technology Projects Can Improve Children’s Literacy
Families and communities have a tremendous role to play in improving educational and reading outcomes for children around the globe.
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
World Around You
Open source software that enables communities to create literacy content in local and national sign languages to be shared via an open-content digital library of folktales.
Eight disabled pupils score 400 marks in KCPE exams
Eight disabled children scored above 400 marks in the 2018 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examinations, Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed has said.
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
Señas y Sonrisas (Signs and Smiles)
An app offering resources for hearing families with deaf children, including a dictionary of Nicaraguan Sign Language.
Equipping parents to manage learning disabilities in children through the Nyansapo scholarship
When it comes to academic performance, almost every parent expects their child to hit the mark.
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
Begin With Books Prize
The Begin With Books Prize challenges global innovators to assemble cost-effective packages of high quality, accessible titles in more than 30 underserved spoken and sign languages.
The Transformative Power of Literacy for Children with Visual Disabilities
In a first grade classroom in the Philippines, Ma’am Jen, a teacher to students who are blind or low vision, sets a newly printed braille book she created in front of nine-year-old student Alexa.
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
Begin With Books Info Sheet
Learn more about the Begin With Books prize, challenging global innovators to develop or adapt books in more than 30 underserved languages.
Global Digital Library
An open source digital library of ebooks available in more than 70 languages available for free use on the web, mobile or print, or for translation and localization.
