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Transforming Education Through M-Learning
Joan Mwachi-Amolo
www.worldreader.org
Unlocking the E-book Opportunity
Generate Access
Utilize data to understand readership
Experiment (low prices, short form content)
Most experience
implementing e-reading
education programs
Largest collection
of culturally
relevant e-books
Best mobile reading
apps for the
developing world
Only
organization in
the world doing
this
Worldreader’s Model
Literacy FrameworkWorldreader has curated the world’s largest culturally-relevant digital
library, a collection that meets the reading needs of audiences across
a spectrum of literacy.
Cat and Rat
by Budding Reader
UNITED STATES
The Baobabs of Tete
by Kari Dako
GHANA
My Love is Blind
by Hiba Khan
INDIA
The Girl with the Magic Hands
by Nnedi Okarafor
NIGERIA
Aiskrimu (Ice Cream)
by Big Bug Books
SOUTH AFRICA
Go Go the Goat Goes Ga-Gain the Game Parkby Edwin Mokaya
KENYA
Kofi Has Malaria
by Barbara Baddoo
GHANA
Where There is No Doctor
by David Werner
UNITED STATES
Learning to Read Reading to Learn Reading for Pleasure
Our Library
Mobile
E-Readers
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Ghana: 8,675
Kenya: 14,685
Uganda: 2,250
Rwanda: 750
Tanzania: 2,900
Malawi: 1,320Zambia: 800
Zimbabwe: 750
South Africa: 1,705
Nigeria: 975Ethiopia: 960
Worldreader School & Libraries
Declining costs
Holds 1,500+ e-books
Easy to use, even by
young children (and
teachers)
Battery lasts 2-4 weeks
Designed for reading,
not calls, Facebook, chat…
Built-in dictionary,
font size….
A portable library
that never closes
We have deployed 7,862 e-readers to 102 schools
and 11 libraries in sub-Saharan Africa
Why Kindles?
Why mobile phones?
They’re already in people’s hands: 6 of the
world’s 7 billion people have access to mobile
phones.
4.5 million toilets worldwide!
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America
15,647Africa
182,024
Asia
123,284Europe
2,396
Worldreader Mobile
Our Library
15,519
e-book titles
44
languages
28,000+
books
STEM
5000+ Indian and African
books digitized and
distributed digitally for the first
time by Worldreader10,000 STEM concepts and
texts in English
13,000 books across all
genres from publishers and
authors from around the world
from the USA to Singapore to
Brazil
General breakdown of our library….
Original Digital
+ By end of 2015 additional influx of 10,000 more books
Global Library
All Markets
All Genres
Some of the publishers we work with
Results
1. Increased access to books• 28,000 titles currently available
• 44 languages
• Users in 50 countries
• 1.2 million people read on Kindles and mobile
phone in 2014 through Worldreader.
2. More people reading
• 2.6 million books read to
date
• 62% of Worldreader
Mobile users read more
now than before they
had access to a library
on their phones.
3. People reading more
4. People reading better
• Children make 2x as much
progress in oral reading
fluency in just 5 months.
• Girls outpace peers in
neighboring schools by 3-
5x, closing the gender-
achievement gap.
• For girls, one year with
Worldreader is like five
years of regular schooling.
Are we growing a new readership?
• Books are
fundamental to
reading
• Reading is
fundamental
to literacy
• And literacy is
fundamental to
life
YES + creating an active and vibrant reading culture. Because,
www.worldreader.org
