How do we measure our success?
We gauge the impact of our many projects by measuring the number of books read before and after deployment, students’ reading ability, as well as our own ability to provide delivery and support. Longer-term, we look for increased community involvement in reading, and ultimately increased literacy rates beyond UN-predicted levels. We continually conduct research within our programs, and publish the results here. (For external articles about our work, including from scholarly journals, visit our press room.)
March 2010: We launched the first classroom-based Kindle project in Africa. | Back in the day.
July 2010: iREAD is Worldreader’s pilot study in Ghana. | Read the research concept note for iREAD.
December 2010: E-readers and e-books get kids to read more — and better. | See how far we’ve come.
October 2011: We launched the first e-reader project in East Africa in April 2011. | See how we expanded to Kenya.
October 2011: Students wanted to read during school break. | We set up Vacation School.
January 2012: An independent evaluation of Worldreader’s iREAD program in Ghana after one academic year | Read the USAID-funded report.