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.

The Tuta Tuta project launched during February 2017 in Jordan. Funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the program aimed to promote frequent reading by parents and caregivers to Syrian refugee children.

Publishers in African countries have started to experience the advantages of digital technologies, like learning from data and reaching broader and more diverse audiences across borders.

The Anasoma Research has presented initial findings of the first sprint of the Anasoma Research aimed at identifying barriers of and drivers to female mobile readership in Kenya.

This report by Worldreader and the Kenya National Library Service shows the success of LEAP 2.0 and how the national scale-up of project LEAP provided librarians across Kenya the opportunity to put their unique spin on a digital reading project.

In Kenyan libraries, Worldreader and knls’s LEAP program highlighted five key insights for moving from pilot to country-level scale and that can contribute to strengthening an effective ecosystem of technology-enriched educational programs.

This report describes the research process, methodology and critical findings that enables Worldreader, and others, to positively influence gender norms and stereotypes by exposing users to empowering content on applications.

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.

The new e-reader models that Worldreader has been deploying over the past three years have stood up to hard use with low breakage rates.

This report highlights the importance of access to books and the need for a format neutral approach to reading programs in the Global South.

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.

This report by Brookings details where and how quality education has scaled in low- and middle-income countries, featuring Worldreader as a case study.