Featured Innovators
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
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
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
All Innovators
- Show all
- Afghanistan
- Africa
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Bangladesh
- Cambodia
- East Timor
- Ethiopia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Global
- Haiti
- India
- Indonesia
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Macedonia
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Zambia
Benetech
Adding Marathi human-narrated audio capabilities to create accessible, grade-level storybooks that can be listened to on low cost audio devices by children who are blind/low visionCompetition
Grant Competition 2014
Winner Status
Winner
Catholic Relief Services
Using innovative technologies for teachers to create and translate print/braille learning materials and for children who are blind/low vision to learn braille.Competition
Grant Competition 2014
Winner Status
Winner
Center for Civil Integration and Inter-Ethnic Relations
Improving first and second language reading skills of ethnic minority primary school children by supplying teachers and students with early grade, bilingual educational materialsCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
College of William & Mary
Sofware that enables teachers and students to read, write, and share books using a local digital library and a kid-friendly storytelling application.Competition
Big Ideas@Berkeley 2014/15 Prize
Amount Awarded
$10,000
Winner Status
1st place
Cologne Game Lab
Antura and the Letters app builds foundational literacy skills in Arabic and improves psychosocial well-being for Syrian children who are out of school or struggling in school.Competition
EduApp4Syria Prize
Amount Awarded
$650,000 (innovative tender)
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
Get Involved
Discover opportunities to become part of the solution for 387 million children waiting for the opportunity to learn to read.
