18-year-old Edith from Navrongo, Ghana first heard about Worldreader mobile from a friend who volunteered with Worldreader. Ever since then, she has read over 200 stories on the app. Reading particularly matters to Edith because it will help her become a successful woman in the future.

7 years ago, a small team of Worldreader staff traveled to a school in Ghana with a batch of 20 e-readers. We wanted to test whether e-readers filled with books could be an innovative and effective tool for closing the literacy gap in Sub-Saharan Africa. That was just the beginning. Since then, we’ve scaled up … Continue Reading →

Digital literacy has become one of the most important skills required in everyday life. Digital literacy is the knowledge, skills, and behaviours for the effective use of digital devices such as smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop PCs for purposes of communication, expression, collaboration and advocacy.

Opera and digital reading non-profit Worldreader have joined forces to understand how women in Africa use mobile internet. Two studies undertaken by the organizations have found that women in Africa use mobile internet to empower and entertain themselves.

iREAD is Worldreader’s pilot e-reading study in Ghana, which aims to give Ghana public school students access to free digital books using e-reader technology.

Hear what co-founder David Risher has to say about the Digital Reading Summits in Accra, Ghana and Nairobi, Kenya.

Worldreader, a global literacy nonprofit organization, has organized the Digital Reading Summit for the past two years in Africa. The purpose of this conference is to bring together publishers, e-reader project managers, educational professionals, non-profit organizations, and government officials, interested in building the future of digital reading.

Samsung and Jumia have partnered with World Reader, a non profit organization, in an initiative that will promote literacy and education by pre-installing 15,000 free e-books in Samsung entry-level smartphones. The select smartphones include, Ace 4 Lite, Ace 3, Trend Lite, J1, Star 2 Plus, and Ace 4 Neo.

The South-Korean OEM, Samsung and online retail store, Jumia have partnered with Worldreader, a non-profit organisation in an initiative to promote literacy and education by pre-installing 15,000 free e-books in Samsung entry-level smartphones.

A local nonprofit is battling Ebola's effect on a generation of kids. Worldreader runs on donations from foundations and individuals.

In 2014, two new reports showed how Worldreader’s digital reading efforts can effectively boost literacy rates, and how a reading culture can flourish in the developing world thanks to the march of mobile technology and some generous new publisher partnerships.

Worldreader is improving reading in Africa, as early primary students read more and better after 18 months in an e-reader program, improving their literacy rates.