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Google Launches Literacy Portal
November 15, 2006
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development...
-Kofi Annan
-Kofi Annan
Google, UNESCO, and LitCam have launched a new “Literacy Portal” on the web to help you find books, scholarly articles, and videos about literacy. The service also connects you to literacy organizations, blogs, and discussion groups around the world.
Google Literacy (http://www.google.com/literacy/) allows users to actually search within books and articles to find information related to literacy. Your search for specific topics or keywords will reveal a list of related books, articles, or videos with snippets of copyrighted information and the ability to download non-copyrighted information in its entirety. You can also search for literacy organizations worldwide, using a clickable, zoomable map, and search for, create, or join literacy discussion groups and blogs.
In an article for BBC News, Jessica Powell, European corporate communications manager at Google, said, "Our objective at Google is to organise the world's information and to make it accessible to everyone. We think the Internet has an important role to play in terms of accessing information." The service is available in English and German. (Read the BBC article)
Contributed by Kirsten Haugen
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Displaying All 2 CommentsUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA
PRETORIA, GAUTENG, United States
This initiative is very welcome. Althoguh I have not tried to use the website yet, I trust the books or articles are recorded by country because that would speed up the search if one is focusing on a specific country.
Bloomington, IN, United States
WOW!!!
Yah for Google, UNESCO and LitCam!
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