Kindle for schoolchildren in Africa

an interesting snippet:

Amazon.com Sending Kindles to Africa For Classroom Trials

From the Article:

A charity called Worldreader.org, which is attempting to boost literacy rates in the third world using technology, has persuaded Amazon to send a big pile of Kindle e-readers over to Africa.

Ghana’s Ministry of Education is running a trial to find out two things – firstly if the e-readers can pump up the percentage of Ghanian kids who who read, and secondly whether opting for ebooks can reduce some of the spending on textbooks that its schools are forced into. It’s being initially tested among 11-12-year-olds.