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How Mobile Phones Can Help Tackle The World’s Literacy Problems

YoungUpstarts

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 Education institutions can purchase special bulk licenses, if they want to buy and distribute core texts rapidly. Instead, it’s taken as a fact; 96.6 percent of men and 88.6

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

have these stories of kids who are in Taliban-controlled, Afghanistan, and young girls were forbidden from going to school who are using Khan Academy in that way. I remember we were trying to translate those documents onto the web as fast as we could, and teach our volunteers how to use them. You fast forward to about 2009.