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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
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Innovator Spotlight Webinar
Sesame Workshop shares about their Learn to Read – Read to Learn content and the use of digital media. World Education discusses developing reading benchmarks and develpment of a Khmer mlearning app DOST – Fostering Early Childhood Development in India
Early years of childhood form the basis of intelligence, personality, social behavior, and capacity to learn and nurture oneself.Play.Connect.Learn
Read ebooks and play literacy games in the Marathi language of India on this smartphone-based app developed by Sesame Workshop India.Bookshare
Benetech is an online library of accessible content for people with print disabilities.- Blog // April 2, 2018
The Book Desert: Authors, publishers and innovators have key role in solving global literacy challenge
This crisis, dubbed the “book desert,” was the focus of our panel discussion at the International Children’s Book Fair in Bologna, Italy. StoryWeaver
Pratham Books' open-source digital library offers digital books in multiple languages and formats.The unexpected way that Bollywood could help millions
Yashoda Lakshman Keni, a resident in rural India, hops on the bus to a nearby village to visit relatives. Three years ago, she might not have been able to make that trip to see her family.AniBooks
PlanetRead's collection of leveled AniBooks (animated stories) with Same-Language Subtitling offered in more than 50 languages.Sesame Workshop Evaluation Report
An evaluation report on the results of the ACR GCD-funded "Play.Connect.Learn" project, implemented by Sesame Workshop in India.Benetech Evaluation Report
An evaluation report on the results of the ACR GCD-funded "Bookshare India" project, implemented by Beneficent Technologies (Benetech) in India.Mother Tongue An Essential
A Marathi speaking 4 year old girl named Rashi starts kindergarten. Her mother, trying to choose the program that will best support Rashi’s learning of English, puts her in an all-English classroom.What caused Maharashtra’s leap in reading?
Something very encouraging just happened in the Early Grade Reading (EGR) landscape of Maharashtra, India’s second largest state with a population of 120 million people.11 Tech Innovations Changing Global Education
A giant shipping container now provides computers to students in remote locations. The simplest cell phone records and distributes local stories to improve literacy rates.Statewide services to offer 425,000 e-books
Beginning July 1, the Georgia Libraries for Accessible Statewide Services network will make more than 425,000 accessible e-books available for free to patrons who cannot read traditional print books.2016 Big Ideas Contest Winners Announced
Dost will give low-income moms a leg-up on their child’s primary school readiness and amplify the impact of existing early childhood education programs.Announcing the 2016 Big Ideas Grand Prize Pitch Day Finalists!
The Rudd Family Foundation Big Ideas Contest offers students an opportunity to turn their ideas into action. This year saw the largest number of applications in the contest’s history.Dost: A Mobile Platform to Promote Parent Engagement and Early Childhood Education
Dost Education shares its ACR GCD-funded innovation that empowers functionally illiterate moms to participate in their child's education using low-cost mobile technology.Advancing Literacy Outcomes for Children with Disabilities in India: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Benetech is proud to join the international community and our partners in observance of International Day of Persons with Disabilities to promote awareness and mobilize support for the inclusion of...Dost Education
A mobile platform helping low-income moms in developing countries engage in their child’s education.Student Entrepreneur Spotlight: Sneha Sheth & Dost
Berkeley’s 2015 Hult Prize winner Sneha Sheth discussed her work with Dost, a mobile phone platform delivering early education content and activities to Moms.