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Grand Challenges for Development are rooted in two fundamental
beliefs about international development:
Science and technology, when applied appropriately, can have
transformational effects; and
Engaging the world in the quest for solutions is critical to
instigating
breakthrough progress.
ACR GCD is an on-going series of competitions that
leverages science and technology to create and apply scalable
solutions to
improve literacy skills of early-grade learners in developing
countries.
BACKGROUND
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ROUND 1 Launched November 2011 Grant competition Focus
areas:
Teaching and Learning Materials Education Data
32 winners in 22 countries
2012 Sopheak Kong/World Vision
ROUND 2 Launched February 2014 Grant and Prize Competitions,
Research & Partnership Focus areas:
Mother-tongue Instruction and Learning Materials Family and
Community Engagement Children with Disabiliites
ALL CHILDREN READING
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Launched February 27, 2014
Goal: to address gaps in the education system, through
technology-based solutions that improve reading outcomes, through
three focus areas:
1. Mother Tongue Instruction and Reading Materials: Promoting
the creation and delivery of reading materials for early readers in
their local languages.
2. Family and Community Engagement: Providing technologies,
approaches, and content to help families and communities in
low-resource settings support early grade literacy.
3. Children with Disabilities: Enhancing early grade reading
outcomes for children with disabilities.
ROUND 2
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1. Mother-tongue Instruction and Reading Materials
Enabling Writers
Global Repository
Tracking and Tracing Books
2. Family & Community Engagement Technologies, approaches
and content that encourage production, dissemination, training and
mobilization to support community literacy efforts and
volunteers.
3. Disability: Technologies that enhance reading outcomes for
children with disabilities.
PRIZE COMPETITIONS
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The Tracking and Tracing Books Prize Competition is seeking
innovations to track books destined for early-grade classrooms and
learning centers in low-income countries and allow stakeholders,
ranging from parents to Ministries of Education and donor agencies,
to quickly and easily access relevant tracking information.
Innovations should have four main components:
(1) A process for tracking and tracing books
(2) Associated software
(3) Associated hardware and devices
(4) A method for engaging/easily interfacing with users
TRACKING AND TRACING BOOKS
NEW $100,000 prize for innovation to ensure textbook delivery to
classrooms
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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
www.AllChildrenReading.org
[email protected]
@ReadingGCD
CONTACT US
