<aside> <img src="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" alt="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Summary of Team4Tech Contributions and Collaborations (2023):
<aside> đź“Ś Worldreader is a global nonprofit championing digital reading in underserved communities to create a world where everyone can be a reader. They feature an extensive selection of approximately 35,000 digital books, stories, and teaching materials in 52 languages to use for free. Their easy-to-use mobile app is designed to work on the most basic internet-enabled phone, using minimal data and loading times.
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With Team4Tech’s support, Worldreader is aiming to enhance teacher training, streamline their M&E process for data collected outside of their applications, build partner capacity to drive impact and scale development, and enhance digital literacy skills for parents/caregivers and teachers.
Worldreader Partnership Overview
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<aside> <img src="/icons/library_gray.svg" alt="/icons/library_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Worldreader used their grant funds to strengthen their training capacity, aligning with their goal of enhancing teacher training. They also supported their goal of streamlining their LMS through investing funds towards the LMS each year. Lastly, they supported improving digital literacy skills for parents/caregivers through investing in parent training videos and instructional material for the parent package.
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Worldreader’s partnership with Team4Tech began with a two-year vision to support Worldreader’s early learning programming by focusing objectives on two interventions: Ghana District Scale and BookSmart.
With the grant funding from Team4Tech, Worldreader has finalized a work plan for the BookSmart Ghana District Scale pilot and was able to procure all devices for the MEO by the end of 2021. This included the procurement of two projectors and 15 tablets with hotspots that will be used to pilot community outreach events and onboard parents and caregivers to the BookSmart Home application as part of the sustainability plan for digital reading programs in Kwaebibirem. In 2022 and 2023, Worldreader strengthened their training capacity, aligning with their goals of enhancing teacher training, streamlining their LMS, and improving digital literacy skills for parents/caregivers through investing in parent training videos and instructional material for the parent package.
Worldreader has participated in 2 projects with Team4Tech and NetApp: