 There are roughly 60 million kids in the world who have no access to school and shockingly enough about 250 to 300 million kids who go to school and who leave without ever having learned to read or write a word. These millions and millions of children simply can't learn to read and the best way to solve that problem is with teachers. We can't make teachers fast enough. The educational situation for children is dire, you know, war situations in remote areas. If they don't get that basic foundation, then the rest of their primary school education is wasted. We think that there's an opportunity for tablet-based software to allow children who don't have access to good schools to teach themselves how to read. The competition is a challenge to teams to develop software and content in both Swahili and English that is designed to bring children from zero literacy to literacy in 18 months in reading, writing and math. The prize is the releasing of the potential of probably 50 million, possibly 100, hopefully 250 million children who are not functionally literate. This is about equipping children with tools, with sensibilities, with higher order that will enable them to learn how to learn without an educated citizenry. You can't have democracy. Now is this almost magical moment where the convergence of our knowledge about how children learn to read with our ability to make changes in their reading life with technology. These countries are finding it very difficult to get textbooks out to schools. With mobile technology, you just have to get one piece of equipment out there and every year you can put in a new textbook, you can change the curriculum. The beauty of mobile learning is that in Tanzania, close to 85% of the population has mobile phones. So through that medium, you get a critical mass of learners in the country. No one in their wildest dreams thought that most of the world would be able to talk to one another through a device. If I know as a parent that there's a program that is going to teach my child to read, I'm going to get it. If I'm a teacher that has 40 children in my class, if I know it's going to help them, I'm going to get it. And I'm hoping that this is what's coming out of this prize. If we have evidence that it's working, oh my goodness, how are we going to stop it? It's going to go viral. This is the most powerful technology our species has ever invented. Rewiring the reading brain circuit changes the wiring of our world. Freedom, liberation, community, better learning, mobility, creativeness, transformative. I really think that every single child on planet Earth can have access to quality education in the palm of your hand. And if that's true, I have to believe it's a better world.