Bridging the Literacy Divide.
Our mission is to empower children and adults with tools for knowledge sharing and literacy learning, as an effective means towards advancing education, health, economic development, democracy, and human rights.
We are building the Talking Book Device, a low cost audio player and recorder, for children and adults in the developing world. Children and adults will use the device for literacy learning and knowledge sharing.
We are also building the Content Distribution Network that will make the audio content accessible to all the potential users.
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With over one billion people without minimal literacy skills,
the majority of people living in extreme poverty are not able to use
written information to improve their lives. This is why we are
extremely excited about the empowerment potential of the Talking Book!
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News:
- Literacy Bridge to give opening keynote address at Amsterdam open source conference. See the Events page.
- Google invited our Executive Director to present our Talking Book
program to its employees on 6 January 08 as part of their Google Tech
Talk program. The video of the presentation is here.
- We are updating this site every week -- keep coming back to check out what is new!
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Our guidelines are to make this:
* Affordable - $5 device that the users can buy themselves.
* Accessible - The Content Distribution Network will use currently available transportation and communications network.
* Relevant - The content will be produced by local organizations and users themselves.
* Sustainable - We will collaborate with local organizations to design and build the systems. We aim to serve as catalyst to local businesses that manufacture, market, sell and support the devic e and network, creating a sustainable eco-system.
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