Kea Zhang

Overview

Wisdom Edition AS was founded in January 2013 in Norway, and is a publisher of digital children's books and platform for young childhood education with offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Skopje. \\The company's core activities are the production of digital children's books and learning technology for web and mobile platforms. The flagship product is the mobile library app "Pickatale", which offers more than 1000 interactive children's books available in 5 languages (English, Chinese, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian). Pickatale is a fully interactive, content-rich and quality illustrated electronic library and its goal is to help children develop a love of reading in their first language, and begin exploring their second. \During the years the business has developed successful partnerships with content owners, including the Walt Disney Company and BabyFirst. These co-developed projects include co-branded library apps for China and Global markets, and premium offerings in Pickatale's library app.\\Pickatale v2.0 is an adaptive learning system developed to assist parents and teachers with personalized lesson plans to teach English through a variety of books, games, media and assessments, and will include comprehensive reporting and recommendations for parents and teachers. It is scheduled to launch in Q2 2017 and will become a digital platform for media & learning app distribution globally.\\While the company focuses on new technology development and extending into new markets such as USA and Europe, the Chinese joint venture, Qudu Edu has built a substantial distribution network in China. Over 10.000 schools and 12.000 kindergartens started using the Pickatale app and some of our other products.\The major products developed for the Chinese market is an interactive wall for schools that teaches the children English language. The technology comes with a Touch and Read Pen that makes learning a new language more entertaining and enhances the classroom experience.