Innovators

Explore ACR GCD’s community of more than 80 innovators to learn more about their creative solutions to get all children reading.

Developing solutions

All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development is a sandbox for innovation, funding innovators to develop and implement EdTech solutions to increase reading outcomes for marginalized children in low resource contexts. Below, learn about several of our current awardees and explore more current and past innovators by focus area or locations where they implemented their solutions!

All Innovators

results in Books in Underserved Languages.
  • Sesame Workshop India Trust

    Providing families with a smartphone based mobile app, based on the Marathi dubbed version of Sesame Street, (Galli Galli Sim Sim), to promote mother-tongue literacy skills

    Competition

    Grant Competition 2014

    Winner Status

    Winner

  • SIL International

    Software solutions that allow authors to easily create and export texts in mother tongue languages (including sign languages)

    Competition

    Enabling Writers Prize

    Amount Awarded

    $100,000

    Winner Status

    Winner

  • Ustad Mobile

    Readability for eXeLearning helps writers make decodable and levelled readers for print, mobile, and feature phone distribution.

    Competition

    Enabling Writers Prize

    Amount Awarded

    $12,000

    Winner Status

    Finalist

  • Unleash Kids

    iLoominate allows a user to write books for beginning readers and publish them to a local digital library.

    Competition

    Enabling Writers Prize

    Amount Awarded

    $12,000

    Winner Status

    Finalist

  • John Snow, Inc

    System enabling education officials to track book delivery throughout the system and enables parents, teachers, and local officials to receive an up-to-date information status of books.

    Competition

    Tracking & Tracing Books Prize

    Amount Awarded

    $100,000

    Winner Status

    Winner

  • Community Systems Foundation

    OpenEMIS Logistics tracks the delivery of items to schools using a web interface, a mobile app and SMS technologies.

    Competition

    Tracking & Tracing Books Prize

    Amount Awarded

    $100,000

    Winner Status

    Winner

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