The Mastercard Foundation Centre for Innovative Teaching and Learning in Information, Communications, and Technology (ICT) Rwanda have today announced the first cohort of 12 EdTech Fellows. The EdTech Fellows include companies that will benefit from the Centre's support to expand their operations and improve secondary teaching and learning across the ...
ScholarX, Inc., a fast-growing Technology start-up based in Lagos, is pleased to announce a partnership with N-Power, the Job Creation and Empowerment Initiative of the Social Investment Programme of the Nigerian Federal Government. ScholarX, Inc. has developed a mobile and web platform that helps young African students gain equitable access ...
It is heartwarming to see quite a few start-ups leveraging technology to improve the education sector. This particular sector has not been in a too good shape for a while. Maybe it is now time for technology to prove its actually worth in our daily life. Well, as we are, ...
Obviously, unemployment is a general problem in Africa. It is therefore to see that people are trying to solve it in many creative ways. The cause of this could've be either limited jobs, or unqualified people. BAG innovations, a startup hoping to put an end to this menace, thinks it's ...
According to Shakila K. Umutoni, a PR officer at Imagine We, "the reading culture in Rwanda is pretty low in due part because Rwanda has a culture of oral storytelling. But the lack of a reading culture has translated into low literacy rates. National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda found ...
There are a whole lot of people who do not have access to education in Nigeria. Statistics show that about 10.5 Million children were out of School as at 2010. This is the exact problem Passnownow.com plans to tackle as this is the first time the actual instructional subject content ...
In just less than a year, ScholaX, an EdTech startup has become a household name for Nigerian students. The app and web based startup offers a platform to search for scholarship opportunities and apply before its due date. Asides this, they have just launched a crowdfunding platform where African students ...
Edtech startup Mwabu has raised funding from ELMA Group of Foundations for its Series B investment round to extend its education solutions and academy services to more users across Africa. The firm will use the funding to increase the number of languages into which its content is translated from the ...
eThink Education, a leader in e-learning and technology in USA has launched a Moodle by eThink African Learning Network in Nigeria, to deliver their learning management expertise and allow participating schools and colleges connect and share resources directly within the Moodle platform. The Moodle by eThink African Learning Network (ALN) will ...
Eneza Education, an ed-tech platform based in Nairobi, Kenya just announced it has hit over 1m users four years after it launched a simple leaner platform in Kenya armed with relentless passion on learning in Africa with little resources. "We have surpassed the million mark, at 1,100,000 unique devices on ...
A first of its kind hackathon will bring together edtech (education technology) entrepreneurs from throughout Africa to explore and develop new paths and methods for sustainable change in social systems. Taking place from May 17 – 20, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the aim of the game is in the title: ...
Intel has launched an Education Accelerator to help developers passionate about education, technology, and business to come up with solutions that aim to advance educational excellence through mentorship, funding, and insights. Through its investment arm, Intel Capital, and its education arm Intel Education, the firm is set to invest up ...
Janet Ngugi, has beat all odds to build a platform with over 3000 courses from 47 institutions in Kenya. Dubbed StudyinKenya.co.ke, the platform is a one stop portal with information on all universities and tertiary colleges in Kenya for users to search for programs and compare with others in the ...
Founded this year by three young Kenyans, Victoria Njirithia (20), Allan Juma (24) and Kageni Wilson (24), WebDesk is a cross-boundary learning platform that expects to disrupt the way education is delivered and improve study and interactions between students and teachers in institutions of higher learning in Africa when it ...
