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@ zevlowe @ worldreaders

@ zevlowe @ worldreaders. Where We Are Today. Current: 402 Soon: 1200 Individual. Current: 50 Library. Current: 100 Classroom. Current: 400 Classrooms/Library Soon: 1000+ Individual. Hundreds of African textbooks and storybooks…. … plus books from many top international publishers.

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@ zevlowe @ worldreaders

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  1. @zevlowe @worldreaders

  2. Where We Are Today Current: 402 Soon: 1200 Individual Current: 50 Library Current: 100 Classroom Current: 400 Classrooms/Library Soon: 1000+ Individual

  3. Hundreds of African textbooks and storybooks… … plus books from many top international publishers

  4. Results and Impact • Dramatically increased access to books • Before: 3.6 books/student in home • After: 107 books/student • Significantly improved reading • Raw reading scores up 15.7% • 8% more than control schools • We’re starting to use EGRA

  5. Small project partnerships - Worldreader Kits Everything you need to implement a Worldreader program in your school • Hardware • E- books (pre-loaded) • Worldreader implementation and program management tools • Program design • Training manuals • Student incentive programs • Monitoring and evaluation tools • Best practices: community engagement, risk management, inventory control • Pre and post launch support

  6. Large project partnerships – Worldreader Direct Contact us if you’re bidding on an RFP/RFA that could use an e-reader component

  7. Worldreader Mobile Phone Application (powered by biNu) Providing hundreds of books on a feature phone (not a smartphone) To download, go to http://m.binu.com

  8. Case Study from Rwanda

  9. The setting • Community Library in Rwinkwavu, a remote rural area • Literacy level: 45% in Kinyarwanda (lower in English) • Pilot group: Library staff and community adults. To be expanded to children soon

  10. Initial feedback • “I can use after a short time.” • “it has an Oxford dictionary of English, which allows me to search every difficult word I met in English” • “I like to search this book and turn the pages” • “I like using the e-reader because it helps me to find information very quickly from the book and is very easy to be displaced (is portable)”

  11. Next Steps • Add lower level English, Kinyarwanda, French, and Kiswahili books for children • Lend out e-readers to Partners in Health/ Rwinkwavu Hospital • Book clubs and other activities • Partner with Kigali Public Library, run by the Rwandan Ministry of Sports and Culture

  12. “Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman, and child can realize his or her full potential.” -- Kofi Annan, 1997

  13. Don’t e-readers break easily?

  14. Kindles being used extensively

  15. We learned a lot about what makes Kindles break…

  16. We taught the kids to be more careful

  17. We fix Kindles and make them stronger • Kindle repair facilities in Ghana since Oct 2011 • Breakage rate coming down rapidly • Before: 40% breakage for Kindle 3. Now: 30%. With screen reinforcements: 18% • 6% breakage if kids don’t take Kindle 3s home • 0% breakage rate for Kindle 4 after 6 months

  18. Why use digital books instead of paper books?What types of books do you put on the Kindles?

  19. We work with over a dozen African publishers… … and many top international publishers

  20. How about power?

  21. With a battery life of 150 – 300 hours, e-readers don’t require consistent or reliable access to electricityWhile many of our projects are on the grid or use generators…

  22. … others use macrosolar panels and reserve batteries

  23. We continue to experiment with microsolar solutions

  24. @zevlowe@worldreaders

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