Years ago, David Risher, a former Amazon executive, came up with the unlikely plan of distributing Kindles to children in the developing world to help increase literacy.
She founded a nonprofit organization that works to help increase literacy in developing nations.
To help improve literacy, the country's ministry of education has distributed 5,000 laptops to schools in Kabul and other areas for the One Laptop Per Child project, but with so many people to teach other options will also be required.
This program could be used in other nations to help accelerate literacy education, but the impact that access to mobile phones and knowledge of how to use them has on Afghan women is far greater than just accelerating literacy.
Partnering with Project Literacy to help close the literacy gap, the actor read children's book "The Little Chicken Named Pong-Pong" by Wanda Steward on camera.
There is a need to explore the previously neglected perspectives of people with low literacy to help explain how low literacy can lead to poor health, and to consider how to improve the ability of health services to meet their needs.
The price should have been unthinkable, except that I could convince myself that I was helping literacy efforts; the drawing was a bonus.
Are e-books helping literacy?
In education, it will spend $20 million to help increase computer literacy.
Glasgow amat Latin The Iris Project, masterminded by Lorna Robinson, has for some years been sending volunteer classics students into state primary schools to help children with literacy through Latin.
With access to data must come good training to help reinforce data literacy.
