Audiopedia is making information audible and accessible
Nigeria, India, Brazil, Uganda
Audio Campaign: Pakistan, India, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Paraguay, Senegal, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Togo, South Sudan, Kenya, Afghanistan, Nepal
Project
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Estimated reach: 2.1 M people (+ 46 M in the audio campaign)
Launch date: 10/2020
Status: Implemented
Project type: health education, women's empowerment
Purpose of Project
Closing the gender knowledge gap with audio recordings
Audiopedia is an open-source audio learning platform providing marginalized populations in the Global South with essential knowledge that saves lives and expands opportunities. It specifically targets women and girls in developing countries who face greater gender inequalities due to a lack of basic education, Nearly 500 million women worldwide can neither read nor write, thus, by making basic education free and accessible to non-readers we can increase gender equality and close the knowledge gap. Audiopedia also provides access to health education through its COVID-19 campaign, and as such, is improving infection prevention in communities across 17 countries. The audio platform is now being scaled to more regions with additional health issues- from mental health to leprosy, WASH, gender-based violence and women’s health. Based on a community’s infrastructure, educational level and purchasing power, Audiopedia offers a range of technological solutions to make the content accessible, including solar audio-players, mobile web applications and free Audiopedia content hotspots which require no internet connection.
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Facts about Audiopedia
Approximately
10 million people
used audiopedia.io in 2021.
The Audiopedia COVID-19 campaign is
available in 80 languages.
There are over
5000 audio files today.
More than 10.000 volunteers worldwide support Audiopedia as translators, voice talent, software developers and social media ambassadors.
Audiopedia.org was honored with the digital volunteering award of state government of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany and also won bronze at the digital communication award.
Audiopedia was honored by the World Summit on the Information Society, UNAIDS Health Innovation Exchange, the Global Innovation Exchange, TATA Social Enterprise Challenge and the Health in your Hands partnership.
