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	Worldreader, A Shot In The Arm For King George School! from Techno Mag, May 19th, 2013
	Worldreader signs on more local publishers in Zimbabwe from Techzim, May 17th, 2013
	Low reading culture threatens country’s literacy rate: Minister from Chronicle, May 16th, 2013
	No more ‘baggage’ for learners as ministry takes e-readers to class Standard Digital, May 15th, 2013
	Should students be given laptops or e-readers? from Business Daily, May 15th, 2013
	PM unveils pioneer e-book library from DailyNews, May 13th, 2013
	Tanzania: PM Unveils Pioneer E-Book Library from AllAfrica, May 13th, 2013
	Worldreader reaches out to Zimbabwe from Techno Mag, May 10th, 2013
	A ‘novel’ idea for spreading literature in Africa: The cellphone by Christian Science Monitor, May 9th, 2013
	The better side of ICTs and learning of children in Kenya by Daily Nation, May 6th, 2013
	Mobile Phones Deliver Millions of E-Books to Developing World from Mashable, April 17th, 2013
	Worldreader, a nonprofit, brings e-books to developing countries by Christian Science Monitor, April 11th, 2013
	WorldReader sees 500,000 Readers a Month with their App from Goodereader, April 10th, 2013
	Worldreader counts 500,000 users of its e-reading app on feature phones from CNN Money, April 9th, 2013
	Worldreader counts 500,000 users of its e-reading app on feature phones from Giga Om’s Paid Content, April 9th, 2013
	Former Amazon exec wants to give free e-books ‘to every child on the planet from Venture Beat, April 9th, 2013
	This Simple App Could Put E-Books On Millions Of Phones In The Third World from Forbes, April 9th, 2013
	Worldreader Expands Ghana Footprint with a $300,000 Grant from USAID, World Vision, and AusAID from Goodereader, March 5th, 2013
	Worldreader: E-readers can transform education in developing countries from VOXXI, February 27th, 2013
	Four companies that are changing digital reading in Africa from Giga Om’s Paid Content, February 18th, 2013
	The Weekly Good: Worldreader Wants To Put A Digital Book In Every Child’s Hand from TechCrunch, February 17th, 2013
	With Digital Technology, Worldreader Brings Knowledge to Africa’s Neediest Children from Wharton Knowledge, December 11th, 2012
	Digital Education in Kenya: Tablet Teachers from The Economist, December 8th, 2012
	Education Economy on Emirates Daily News from Emirates News (minute 6:58), November 14th, 2012
	E-books Become the Ideal Solution from Gulfnews.com, November 13th, 2012
	DHL Lend Worldreader a Hand – Delivering Kindles To Africa from eBookAnoid, October 29th, 2012
	E-readers kindle enthusiasm for learning among children in Kenya from The Guardian, October 26th, 2012
	On International Day of the Girl, Books Matter from Huffington Post Impact, October 11th, 2012
	FC Barcelona y Worldreader, juntos, para marcar un gol a favor de las niñas from Corresponsables.com, October 11th, 2012
	El Barça ayuda a fomentar la lectura entre las niñas más desfavorecidas by Sport España, October 11th, 2012
	World Literacy Day: Giving All Kids a Chance from Huffington Post Impact, September 8th, 2012
	Cuando el fútbol sirve para algo… más by El País – Blog 3500 Millones, September 14th, 2012
	Worldreader: Taking the E-Books Revolution to Africa by Bloomberg Businessweek, September 6th, 2012
	Publishers Back African Literacy Effort With E-Books by The New York Times, September 6th, 2012
	A Tale of Technology and The Written Word by Financial Times, September 3rd, 2012
	Libraries in the Hands of Children in the Developing World by Jet Set Times, September 2nd, 2012
	Active in a Cloud, Amazon Reshapes Computing by The New York Times, August 27th, 2012
	The Future of Education in Africa is Mobile, by BBC Future, August 24th, 2012
	1 Million e-books to Developing Nations by CNN (Katie Linendoll), July 6th, 2012
	Libros para cambiar el mundo, en el foro Impulsa by abc.es, June 29th, 2012
	Worldreader’s partnership with FCB by Fox Soccer Report, June 20th, 2012
	An e-reader revolution for Africa? by The Wall Street Journal, Life & Style, June 15th, 2012
	Kindles para niños Africanos by El País, June 9th, 2012
	FC Barcelona Kicks Off Appeal to Send Million E-Books to Africa by Wall Street Journal Tech Europe, May 25th, 2012
	FC Barcelona stars help to bring e-books to Africa by Christian Science Monitor, May 25th, 2012
	Barcelona FC Backs Bid to Send One Million E-Books to Africa by CNN Inside Africa, May 25th, 2012
	“¿De verdad Messi quiere que yo lea más?” by Sport España, May 24th, 2012
	Worldreader Wants to Bring 1 Million E-Books to Africa by Fast Company, May 24th, 2012
	1 Million E-Books Headed to Africa with FC Barcelona’s Help by Mashable, May 24th, 2012
	Visions & Voices: Colin McElwee, by Capital, May 17th, 2012.
	May 10: e-Reader Technology + Education = Changes in the Developing World by Fire it Up with CJ, May 10th, 2012
	A simple challenge to publishers: books for Ghana by Domino Project, April 27th, 2012
	What happens when you give Kindles to kids in Ghana by GigaOm, April 27th, 2012
	Kids in Ghana learn quickly with Kindle by MSNBC, April 27th, 2012
	Turning dumbphones to smartphones by BBC Future, Matter of Life & Tech, April 6th, 2012
	Pew E-book Survey: 20 Percent of U.S. Is Reading Electronically from Daily Beast, April 5th, 2012
	E-books for smart kids on ‘dumb’ phones from Giga Om’s Paid Content, April 3rd, 2012
	Reading app launched for ‘dumb’ phones The Bookseller, April 2nd, 2012
	Interview: Colin McElwee from Metropolitan Barcelona, March 30th, 2012
	An update on the use of e-readers in Africa from EduTech, A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education, March 16th, 2012
	Earning Credits for More Books – Worldreader from TeleRead as a re-post of Worldreader’s blog, March 16th, 2012
	How do children learn to read when you have no books? from No Straight Lines Blog by Alan Moore, March 14th, 2012
	Webinar in Argentina: Dispositivos Móbiles y Contenidos Digitales from Webinar 2012: Aprendizaje Ubicuo, March 14th, 2012
	Recognize Others For Exemplary Nonprofit Commitment from Microsoft’s Just Means, Recognize Others For Exemplary Nonprofit Commitment, March 13th, 2012
	Profile in Innovation: Worldreader from Leader to Leader Institue, February 2012
	Mobile Devices Address Tech. Equity in Africa from Education Week, January 30th 2012
	Exciting Kindle News From Worldreader: Read A Book, Feed A Mind from Kindle Nation Daily, January 26th, 2012
	Creative Cause: The Kilgoris Project from clamorate! January 18th, 2012
	Gutenberg 2.0: Kindling the Reading Habit from Huffington Post, December 27th, 2011
	The Ultimate Last-Minute Gift For Benevolent Bookworms from Edudemic, December 18th, 2011
	Give a book to a kid in Africa an e-book – Worldreader have a nice idea from eBookAnoid, December 16th, 2011
	Global EdTech News Roundup December 2011 from Dot Learnt, December 6th, 2011
	A World of Books from Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin, November 22nd, 2011
	E-Readers Help Spread Literacy, No Apps Needed from MindShift KQED, November 11th, 2011
	Microsoft Alumni Foundation announces Integral Fellows Award winners from The Seattle Times, November 17th, 2011
	Worldreader is leading a reading revolution in the developing world from ETD, October 26th, 2011
	Bringing e-books to African schools from Al Jazeera, October 23rd, 2011
	Mobile Phones, eBooks Turning the Page on Education from USAID, September/October 2011
	Worldreader and Amazon bring Africa’s Libraries to the World from ReadWriteWeb, August 22nd, 2011
	Sin Libros de Texto pero con E-books from La Vanguardia, July 10th, 2011
	Out of Amazon, into Africa from Princeton Alumni Weekly, July 6th, 2011
	Worldreader Expands into Kenya from Publishers Weekly, April 18th, 2011
	Llibres arreu from El Punt Avui, April 16th, 2011
	eReaders will transform the developing world – in and outside the classroom from ETD, April 12th, 2011
	First Step to Literacy: Getting Books into the Hands of Children from Brookings, January 28th, 2011
	E-Readers in Africa: Non-Profit Brings Thousands of Books to Ghanaian Children from Mashable, January 26th, 2011
	Florida or Ghana, E-Reading Innovators Face the Same Challenges from The New York Times, January 24th, 2011
	BBC’s David Amanour covers the first days of the iREAD pilot in Ghana
	What’s Next: Curling up with E-readers from Stanford Social Innovation Review, November 2010
	Worldreader.org Announces Random House E-book Donation; Digitization Project from Publishers Weekly, November 11th, 2010
	BBC’s Sophie Ikenye Interviews Colin McElwee about Worldreader’s Work in Ghana
	Worldreader.org: Livres électroniques pour tous from Le Monde, October 15th, 2010
	Worldreader to Digitize Thousands of African Titles and Ship out E-readers from TechCrunch, October 8th, 2010
	Frankfurt 2010: Making a Difference with E-readers from Publishers Weekly, October 8th, 2010
	Worldreader and Amazon bring Africa’s Libraries to the World from ReadWriteWeb, October 6th, 2010
	Worldreader.org to Digitize and Make Available Thousands of Books by African Authors in 2010  from Reuters, October 7th, 2010
	CNN Interviews Worldreader.org’s David Risher from CNN, August 2010
	Worldreader to Boost Literacy in Ghana With Kindle e-Readers from HowStuffWorks, July 2010
	Worldreader.org reports early success, sets bigger goals from Tele Read, July 28th, 2010
	E-readers bring the world’s libraries to rural Africa from ReadWriteWeb, July 27th, 2010
	Bringing Kindles Into Developing Countries from GigaOM, June 25th, 2010
	Kids in Africa need books too from El Periódico, June 4th, 2010
	E-readers in a different environment from Enrique Dans, May 27th, 2010
	Worldreader.org testing e-readers in third world classrooms from Pocket-lint, April 21st, 2010
	African E-Book Initiative Launched from Ghana Library Association, April 20th, 2010
	Worldreader.org initiates e-book project in Ghana from Ghana Web, March 22nd, 2010
	Kindle seen as enabler for developing countries by worldreader.org from geek.com, March 16th, 2010
	Kindles Come To Classroom in Ghana from Wired, March 16th, 2010
	Nonprofit tries One-Kindle-Per-Child in Ghana by Wall Street Journal Tech Europe, August 5th, 2010