The challenge was to develop software that could easily be downloaded onto tablets that poor children around the world could use to teach themselves to read, write and do simple arithmetic. Add Technology as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Technology news, video, and analysis from ABC News. All five finalists developed functional software that will go on the web, said Emily Musil Church, XPRIZE's executive director of prize operations. Not that any XPRIZE competition is easy. XPRIZE officials said the teams' work met with substantial success, noting only 2% of participants could read at least one sentence in Swahili when the work began.

Source: ABC News May 15, 2019 05:23 UTC