Grapho Learning Intiative launched in 2011 by University of Jyväskylä and Niilo Mäki Institute. It aims to assist millions of children to learn to read in their local language with the help of technology and knowhow of the most well informed experts of reading acquisition in the world. Once the children have acquired a basic reading skill, they need access to reading materials to be able to put in practice the skill they have recently mastered. However, in many low-income countries there is a great need of reading material in local languages. Today this can be offered cost-effectively via digital channels like low-cost mobile devices. Since literacy is the key to all further education, we aim to give assistance to children to make progress in their lives with the help of science, technology and sustainable business.

International agreements such as Jomtien declaration of Education for All (EFA) and UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of universal access of primary education which guide the international and national policies on education, recognise that education is the way to national development and poverty reduction. Also, literacy is an important driver for global change.

Grapho Learning Initiative consists of four schemes:

GraphoGame helps children to learn to read by an innovative
learning game developed by the experts of University
of Jyväskylä and Niilo Mäki Institute, the game is
a non-profit powerful tool to promote literacy in the world

GraphoWorld is an international Network of Excellence that
through research and implementation aims
at providing technology-enhanced support
of spoken and written language development
among typical and atypical learners.

GraphoRead is a a Tekes-funded research project on eReading
that develops new media formats and business models
to support acquisition of functional literacy in low-income
countries; our 11 month project in 2011 will lead to commercial activities under GraphoLEARN.

GraphoLearn is an entity for the production of learning materials,
to be established in the near future, based on the new
media formats and business models generated in GraphoREAD