Together with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity, we're making affordable housing more accessible for families in under-resourced areas by introducing a new way for future homeowners to put sweat equity into their homes — reading on BookSmart.

EdTech Hub studied how through Worldreader’s BookSmart application, Kenyan schools are using technology to improve parent and carers’ engagement with literacy learning in young readers.

The Read with Us pilot in Sierra Leone has created a solution to support children through dynamic learning communities and digital reading during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In response to COVID-19 school closures and learning loss, Worldreader and CARE Egypt partnered to support children’s learning outside the classroom. With BookSmart, daily reading time increased to 23 minutes, with over 99% of caregivers saying that they read more with their children.

Worldreader, World Vision, and GRADE partnered to review the CreceLee digital reading project as it pivoted during the COVID-19 pandemic towards home-based reading. Young students and their families received education at home exclusively through mobile technology and Worldreader’s BookSmart reading application.

A Journal of Development Effectiveness study involving Worldreader’s e-readers and digital books in Zambia has shown that the technology encourages girls to read more, improving their literacy and education rates.

Worldreader, in collaboration with Society for All-Round Development (SARD), designed and deployed a Read to Kids digital reading program, which focused on improving early reading development with an emphasis on increased teacher, parental, and caregiver engagement.

En Perú, CreceLee, un programa de lectura digital, promovió el acceso a la lectura y el aprendizaje durante el cierre de escuelas por el COVID-19 en 2020.

Worldreader partnered with World Vision to provide students at under-resourced schools and community centers in America access to a digital library and a tracking strategy for children to set individual reading goals.

A guide for libraries and community centers interested in launching digital reading programs to support their community.

Early behavior change research in India showed that true behavior change to support sustained reading practices at scale requires a combination of traditional marketing and digital strategies coupled with programmatic support.

LOCAL, a project by Worldreader and AfLIA, leveraged digital reading technologies to improve access to local language early-grade-reading content throughout library networks in Ghana, Zambia, and Uganda, culminating in a toolkit to guide the replication of digital reading programs throughout African libraries.