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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 edtech.
Kampuchean Action for Primary Education / Ul Run
ACR GCD-funded innovator Kampuchean Action for Primary Education shares their innovation to create local language e-books with interactive features for children in Cambodia.In Zambia, a Refuge to Learn
If you want to see a community at work, check out the Lubuto Library on a Saturday morning in Lusaka, Zambia.The Challenge and Potential of Ed Tech
ACR GCD grantee Little Thinking Minds in Jordan spotlights the potential for EdTech to transform child literacy in the MENA region.ACR GCD Unveils $6 Million Literacy Grant and Prize Competition
ACR GCD announces a second round of funding to unearth and champion technologies for improving child literacy.Initiative Africa / Kebour Ghenna
Initiative Africa shares their ACR GCD-funded innovation to use interim assessments and research to improve teacher capacity and professional development in Ethiopia.The Silent Crisis in Timor-Leste’s Development Trajectory
As International Literacy Day approaches, the matter of literacy remains an enormous challenge around the world, including in Asia’s youngest nation, Timor-Leste.Pratham / Usha V. Rane
Pratham Education Foundation shares their ACR GCD-funded innovation to launch monthly learning camps to improve reading, writing and speaking skills among children in India.Monitoring And Evaluation: Keys To Improving Literacy In Africa
Worldreader’s large-scale projects always involve considerable monitoring and evaluation to examine how e-readers and access to digital books help children read more and read better.Voices of the Grand Challenge, All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development
ACR GCD shares the importance of the development of language and literacy to a child's future economic progress, and how others can get involved in tackling the global challenge of child illiteracy.Digitizing Education
An interview with Catherine Oliver Smith, COO and Co-Founder of ACR GCD innovator Urban Planet Mobile, on International Women's Day.The Asia Foundation and Fundasaun Alola Launch All Children Reading Project with Support from USAID
The Asia Foundation, in partnership with Fundasaun Alola, has launched the All Children Reading (ACR) initiative, an 18-month project generously supported by the United States Agency for InternationalUSAID Launches Reading Project for Young Students in Haiti
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a project to promote reading among young students in Haiti.Faces of the Grand Challenge
ACR GCD celebrates innovators from around the world that submitted more than 450 ideas to the 2012 grant competition to improve early grade literacy of children in low-resource contexts.The Bollywood Solution: Making Reading ‘Inescapable’
Much of television programming aimed at young people has earned a dubious reputation for turning the minds of the world’s children into wastelands.Alphabet Boot Camp
At 8 a.m. in the Indian state of Bihar, 25 children gather in a playing field. A bright yellow banner bearing the Pratham Education Foundation’s logo is prominently rolled out at the site.Benetech / Kristina Pappas
ACR GCD-funded innovator Benetech shares their innovation to add audio to digital stories for children who are blind/low vision in India.Sesame Workshop Initiatives India Wins Award At All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge For Development
The innovation – Learn to Read, Read to Learn – by Sesame Workshop Initiatives India (SWIIPLC) was announced a winner by USAID, AusAID and World Vision.ECo-Development / Charles Aldric Halder
Eco-Development share their ACR GCD-funded innovation to provide culturally appropriate reading materials to children in 125 primary schools in Bangladesh.École Supérieure d’Infotronique d’Haïti / Josette Bruffaerts-Thomas
École Supérieure d'Infotronique d'Haïti shares their ACR GCD-funded innovation to provide digital teaching and learning materials to teachers and primary school children in Haiti.Georgia State + Stellenbosch University / Amy Seely Flint + Renee Nathanson
Georgia State University and Stellenbosch University share their ACR GCD-funded innovation to distribute local language teaching and learning materials in digital formats to children in South Africa.