Worldreader
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| Founded | 2010 |
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| Founder | David Risher, Colin McElwee |
| Type | Non-governmental organization |
| Focus | Creating education opportunities and reading cultures in Africa and Asia. |
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Area served
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Africa, Asia, South America |
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Key people
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David Risher, Colin McElwee |
| Slogan | A World of Readers |
| Mission | To unlock the potential of millions of people through the use of digital books in places where access to reading material is very limited. |
| Website | http://www.worldreader.org |
Worldreader is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that delivers e-books to people in the developing world. The organization uses e-readers, mobile phones and other digital technology to provide readers in 53 countries with a digital library of over 45,000 book titles. Since 2010, Worldreader has served over 5.4 million readers.
The organization is headquartered in San Francisco, California and has offices in the United Kingdom, Spain and in Africa.
Worldreader distributes e-readers preloaded with books through partnering schools and libraries, using the non-profit's e-reading solutions. The organization provides technical and pedagogical training for local project managers and teachers and e-reader repair training for local businesses. They also manage logistics and support in partnership with local governments, school systems, and related businesses.
For schools or libraries without access to electricity, the non-profit has a solar product, called BB17, that gives schools and libraries the ability to charge and use e-readers.
As of September 2016, the non-profit has distributed 24,725 Kindle e-readers to 159,817 people including children, families and communities in 12 sub-Saharan African countries.
The Worldreader Open Library is Worldreader's mobile reading application providing worldwide access to books, educational resources and health information to people with mobile phones. The non-profit launched Worldreader Open Library in April 2012.
As of December 2016 the Worldreader Open Library had more than 4.5 million readers worldwide, largely due to its partnership with Opera Software, which promotes the mobile app on the Opera Mini browser in 34 African countries. The app is also available on Microsoft Windows Store, in Mozilla's Firefox Marketplace and Google's Play Store.
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