Innovators

Innovators

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

Featured Innovators

eKitabu
Widening access to books in accessible formats, and working with teachers, community members and caregivers to bring awareness to accessible ICT.
Competition
UnrestrICTed Challenge
Winner Status
Winner
Save the Children
Supporting families in using SIL’s Bloom Reader app to gain access to Department of Education curriculum books in local spoken and signed languages.
Competition
UnrestrICTed Challenge
Winner Status
Winner
World Education. Inc.
Developing a framework for integrating accessible ICTs into government guidelines and training instruction, and expanding teacher professional development.
Competition
UnrestrICTed Challenge
Winner Status
Winner

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The Asia Foundation
Creation of 380 children’s books in six local spoken and signed languages of Laos, Nepal and Papua New Guinea.
Competition
Begin With Books
Winner Status
Winner
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
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 format
Competition
Sign On For Literacy Prize
Amount Awarded
Up to $250,000
Winner Status
Finalist
Manos Unidas
An interactive corpus of sign language words, a smartphone app, and a literacy outreach program for deaf children and their families
Competition
Sign On For Literacy Prize
Amount Awarded
Up to $250,000
Winner Status
Finalist
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 grade
Competition
Sign On For Literacy Prize
Amount Awarded
$25,000
Winner Status
Semi-Finalist
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

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