usaid m4ed4dev seminar - ereader
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24 February 2011 - USAID m4Ed4Dev Seminar - eReaders - David Risher, Worldreader.orgTRANSCRIPT
- 1. Worldreader.org
Books For All
Presentation to USAID
24 Feb 2011
2. Our mission is to make digital books available to all in the
developing world
3. enabling millions of people to improve their lives.
4. We work with e-readers
- A library in a childs hand
5. Battery life up to 4 weeks on 1 hour charge 6. 60-second access to 700,000 books 7. GSM-based 8. Near-zero distribution costs 9. Reading shifts from supply-constrained to demand-based 10. Rapidly decreasing costs 11. First-world technology applied to developing world problems