Our goal is to make knowledge accessible to people living in extreme poverty. Our tool towards the goal is the Talking Book.
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The Talking Book is a low cost audio computer that shares knowledge and improves literacy.
It is helping impoverished rural families learn to prevent disease and improve their crops.
In overcrowded classrooms, children use it to learn from interactive literacy lessons.
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News:
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United Nations Cites Talking Book as "Real Opportunity" The UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, in a speech to the Global Forum on ICT and Innovation for Education, said "The advent of universally accessible information and knowledge...low-cost hardware...all present a real opportunity to developing countries...The Talking Book, for example, uses a low-cost audio device to provide affordable access to literacy learning tools and relevant locally created knowledge in regions with the least infrastructure." Read the full speech.
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Yahoo Employee Foundation, Amazon.com, and Seattle International Foundation All Select Literacy Bridge for Grants! Literacy Bridge is proud to announce these three recent grants based on the impressive results of our pilot and the strong potential as we expand our program. See our other grants.
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Watch Speeches from the Executive Director Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have all invited Cliff Schmidt to
present the Talking Book Project to their employees. Watch the Google Tech Talk, the Microsoft Research talk, or a keynote address at the KDE Conference in Belgium.
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Credit for photography to Scott Sweeney
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Highly Positive Pilot Results!
We are very excited by the pilot results in the village of Ving Ving in Ghana:
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