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Encyclopedia of Earth: Watchknowlearn

Sanger has worked on several open knowledge projects including the Encyclopedia of Earth and WatchKnowLearn, an educational video repository. He later developed Reading Bear, a reading tutorial app for children. In 2013 he announced Infobitt, a crowdsourced news aggregator project, though it shut down in 2015 due to lack of funding. In 2017 he became the chief information officer of Everipedia, an open encyclopedia using blockchain technology. In 2019 he resigned from Everipedia to establish the Knowledge Standards Foundation and develop the website Encyclosphere.org.

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Encyclopedia of Earth: Watchknowlearn

Sanger has worked on several open knowledge projects including the Encyclopedia of Earth and WatchKnowLearn, an educational video repository. He later developed Reading Bear, a reading tutorial app for children. In 2013 he announced Infobitt, a crowdsourced news aggregator project, though it shut down in 2015 due to lack of funding. In 2017 he became the chief information officer of Everipedia, an open encyclopedia using blockchain technology. In 2019 he resigned from Everipedia to establish the Knowledge Standards Foundation and develop the website Encyclosphere.org.

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​[71]​ The first part of the project was the expert-written-and-edited


Encyclopedia of Earth​.[71]​
​ [72]​ Sanger later felt the pace of content production at the Foundation was
too slow for him; he proposed open content to help speed development but the proposal was
rejected.​[55]
Sanger has worked at the ​WatchKnowLearn​ project, a non-profit organization that focuses on
educating young children using videos and other media on the web.​[73]​ It is funded by grants,
philanthropists, and the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi.​[74]​ Sanger headed the
development of WatchKnowLearn from 2008 to 2010.​[75]​ It consists of a repository of educational
videos for kindergarten to the 12th grade.​[76]​ In February 2013, it ranked as the top search result
among educational videos on ​Google​'s search engine and attracted over six million page views each
month.​[77]​ In 2010 and 2011, he continued developing a web-based reading-tutorial application for
beginning readers, which was launched in as ​Reading Bear​ in 2012.​[78]​ It uses the principles of
phonics​ and multimedia presentations such as videos, PowerPoint presentations, and ebooks to
teach pronunciation to children.​[78]​ It also aims to teach the meaning and context of each word.​[78]
In February 2013, Sanger announced a project a crowdsourced news portal called Infobitt; saying on
Twitter​, "My new project will show the world how to crowdsource high-quality content—a problem
I've long wanted to solve. Not a wiki".​[79]​ The site, which aimed to be a crowdsourced ​news
aggregator​, went online in December 2014​[80]​ but ran out of money in July 2015.​[81]
In September 2017, it was announced that Sanger had become the ​chief information officer​ of
Everipedia​,[82]​
​ [83]​ an open encyclopedia that uses ​blockchain​ technology.​[84]​ That month, Sanger
told ​Inverse​ Everipedia is "going to change the world in a dramatic way, more than Wikipedia did".​[85]
Sanger said, "Everipedia is the encyclopedia of everything, where topics are unrestricted, unlike on
Wikipedia."​[86]
On July 1, 2019, Sanger advocated for a social-media strike to take place on July 4 and 5 to demand
the decentralization of social media platforms to their user bases from their top-level management so
their users can assert control over their data and privacy.​[87]​[88]​ On October 18, 2019, he announced
he had resigned from his position at Everipedia and returned his stock holdings in the company
without compensation to establish the Knowledge Standards Foundation and develop the website
encyclosphere.org.​[89]​ He said of the venture, "We need to do for encyclopedias what blogging
standards did for blogs: there needs to be an 'Encyclosphere.' We should build

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