JAYFORCE

Software pioneer and philanthropist David Risher has been a force in the high-tech industry since the 1990s. Pivotal to the success of techie giants Microsoft and Amazon, Risher is looking to make high-tech history in a different way in the 21st century: Using e-books to spread literacy, literature, and increased opportunity across the African continent.

David Risher has already raised over $1.5 million in government and private sector funds in support of that mission; and his nonprofit, Worldreader, is shipping Amazon’s Kindle reader to schools and communities in sub-Saharan Africa with a near-term goal of providing 1 million e-books to children in the largely English-speaking countries of Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya in the next year. Awesomenesss! Respect, Mr. Risher. RESPECT!

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