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X Prize Pledges $15M for Software That Lets Children Teach Themselves

The X PRIZE Foundation, the brainchild of entrepreneur and futurist Peter Diamandis, is already working on everything from sending people to the moon, to cleaning up our oceans, to developing a real life Star Trek tricorder. And on Monday, the venerable non-profit announced another ambitious goal. It wants to bootstrap technology that will let the world’s children teach themselves to read and write.

The newly launched Global Learning X PRIZE http://learning.xprize.org/ is offering up $15 million to fund open source software that can remake education in the developing world. Ideally, Diamandis says, the X PRIZE team is looking for software that is artificially intelligent, so it can better understand how students learn and what their interests are, in order to keep them more engaged in their education.

By Issie Lapowsky

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/2014/09/peter-diamandis/

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