Pearson Foundation

Pearson Education is a British-owned education publishing and examination company that serves schools, businesses and students owing educational media companies such as Addison–Wesley, Peachpit, Prentice Hall, eCollege, Longman and Scott Foresman.

With 32,000 workers in 70 nations, Pearson’s unique perspective and world-class skills stem from its long history of collaborating with teachers, students, researchers, authors and thought leaders. Daily, millions of teachers and students across the world utilize its products and services.

A collaboration between UNESCO and Pearson looks into innovative ways to help low-skilled and low-literate people benefit from inclusive digital technologies, which will improve their literacy and fundamental skills.

By researching, documenting and distributing a variety of creative case studies from all across the world – outside of the typical education contexts, work, and social participation – the project creates guidelines for developing more inclusive, available and useful digital solutions and policies with the ultimate goal of closing the worldwide reading gap by 2030 and thus reaching a major commitment of the Sustainable Development Goals.