our sincere thanks

We are grateful to the following major sponsors for their financial support:

• Carnegie Mellon University

• MacArthur Foundation - HASTAC Digital Media and Learning award 2008

• Microsoft - Digital Inclusion award 2006

• Nokia

• Qualcomm - BREW Wireless Reach award 2007 

• U.S. National Science Foundation - Grant #0326582

• Verizon

Other sponsors include:

• Intel Undergraduate Research Program at the University of California, Berkeley

• Bears Breaking Boundaries 2006 competition at UC Berkeley - prize award in serious games category

• Seeqpod

• Sony Creative Software - Sound Forge

• Wildbit - Beanstalk subversion server

• Wrike -project management facility

We thank our collaborators for running the extra mile with us:

• ASSET India Foundation

• Byrraju Foundation

• edioma

• Sesame Workshop India

• Suraksha

The De Novo Group and Project Olympus, the incubator units affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University respectively that accelerate world-class academic research into the development and business stages, have been generous with their support.

We acknowledge our tremendous debt to our business and academic advisors, as well as the numerous volunteers who got us to where we are today.

Finally, our thanks go to the parents in the villages and slums who consented to their children participating in our research studies, in the hopes that they -- together with millions of other poor children around the world -- can realize their fullest potentials.