XPRIZE Announces Impact Coalition -- Global Learning Prize

XPRIZE Announces Impact Coalition, Expanding Reach & Scale of the Global Learning Prize

Learning Xprize: 5.22.2018

Today, XPRIZE along with Queen Rania Foundation,  Teach the World Foundation, Imagine Worldwide, Education Cannot Wait, and the Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation (GAHI), announced a new Impact Coalition to expand the reach and scale of the recent educational technology breakthroughs coming out of the Global Learning XPRIZE.

This XPRIZE is a global competition with a US$15 Million prize purse put up by Elon Musk that challenges teams around the world to develop open-source and scalable software that will enable children with limited education access to teach themselves basic reading, writing and arithmetic within 15 months. The announcement of the Impact Coalition was made to coincide with the Global Learning Impact Summit in Washington, DC, hosted at the 3M Innovation Center.

The first Impact Coalition field test pilots include:

Queen Rania Foundation - The goal of this pilot is to explore potential use cases of mobile learning to support basic literacy and numeracy in Jordanian and Syrian Refugee contexts.

Education Cannot Wait (ECW) – As the first and only global fund solely focusing on education in emergencies, Education Cannot Wait has invested in 15 countries in crises. ECW recognizes the value of innovation in giving children and youth the opportunity to learn even in most dire circumstances.

Teach the World Foundation - The Teach the World Foundation has already piloted a similar field test in Pakistan and Bangladesh over the last two years and will launch additional large-scale pilots in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa in 2018, with the aim to reach over 10,000 children, including Rohingya refugee children living in Bangladesh.

Imagine Worldwide - Working in two primary schools, this long-term pilot will leverage the software to provide hundreds of children in Malawi with the opportunity to learn to read and do math in their local language, Chichewa.

Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation (GAHI) - With XPRIZE and Queen Rania Foundation, GAHI and its partner Education Cannot Wait will develop a framework for assessing innovations in emergency education.  READ MORE >>