We recently sat down with Ronda Zelezny-Green, a PhD student in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) at Royal Holloway, University of London, to discuss her recent study on Worldreader Mobile usage among a group of girls at a secondary school in Nairobi, Kenya. Her study examines the girls’ app usage in an effort … Continue Reading →

For the last two years, we’ve been running a rigorous study called iREAD 2, examining the impact of Worldreader’s e-reader program on students in Ghana. Today, we are excited to announce the final results of that study. Literacy is a foundational skill that sets up children for lifelong success. Unfortunately, few children in sub-Saharan Africa … Continue Reading →

As the proverb goes, it takes a village to raise a child. At Worldreader, we often feel like we operate as part of a global village to provide children with all the tools they need to succeed. Our part in this is clear — we provide books and fundamental tools for building literacy and helping … Continue Reading →

We’ve seen reading levels of kids in our program steadily improve, but now we have even more proof. Since we started our efforts to make digital books available to millions of students in the developing world, Worldreader has been committed to rigorously measuring the impact of our programs and evaluating how e-readers in schools create … Continue Reading →