How Mobile Phones Can Help Tackle The World’s Literacy Problems
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
by Louise Miller. Literacy is not an overwhelmingly big issue for Singaporeans. Instead, it’s taken as a fact; 96.6 percent of men and 88.6 percent of women are literate, according to the millennial census – though this data is of course nearly 15 years old. In fact, 92.5 percent of Singaporeans over the age of 15 can read and write. Some countries around the globe aren’t in such a fortunate position: Afghanistan, for example, has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world, with only 28.1 per
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