Over the past few years, however, a newly elected Sandinista government has begun large-scale literacy efforts again.
Many other countries in Latin America and the rest of the world have conducted similar large-scale literacy programs.
Because of their large scale and inclusiveness, the literacy efforts went viral, becoming a major theme of public discussion and touching the lives of perhaps the majority of Nicaraguan families.
It has been argued that the 1941 introduction of the Cyrillic script, with its smaller discrepancy between written and spoken form, contributed to the success of the large-scale government literacy campaign, which increased the literacy rate from 17.3% to 73.5% between 1941 and 1950.
As the first computer-based, large-scale adult literacy assessment, PIAAC reflects the changing nature of information, its role in society, and its impact on people's lives.
We conduct randomized experiments around a large-scale financial literacy course in Mexico City to understand the reasons for low take-up among a general population, and to measure the impact of this financial education course.
However, future large scale campaigns to promote depression should consider that depression literacy level in the population may be high.
Although the potential of health literacy has been recognised in academic publications [ 3, 6] and policy documents [ 59- 61], a mechanism by which the concept can be operationalised on a large scale, and in a way that is responsive to different health literacy needs in the population, has not been forthcoming.
Unesco leads the Mobile Phone Literacy project, whose aim is to document the factors that help make mobile-based literacy interventions for women and girls both sustainable and effective on a large scale.
"Alyse Rosner: Large Scale Work".
He does this on a large scale.
