AkooBooks Audio is a platform and experience provider focused on transforming African books into engaging audiobooks that reach new audiences on mobile phones. It prioritizes literacy as the core fundamental of a successful education. It fosters online discovery of new African voices for enthusiasts of all ages through its playlists. Its library of African audio is available anytime, accessible anywhere on a wide variety of mobile devices and offers low, flexible subscription plans and low retail cost. AkooBooks currently operates in Ghana and has distribution agreements with leading audiobook platforms worldwide and YouScribe bringing access to Francophone West Africa and North Africa (Côte-d’Ivoire, Sénégal, Gabon, Mali, Tunisia, Morocco, RDC and Burkina-Faso).
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O’Genius Panda is an educational platform where students use computers to perform laboratory experiments equipping them with experiential and practical science knowledge.
Eneza Education is an EdTech company that provides learning and revision materials via SMS/USSD on basic feature phones. It currently operates in Kenya, Ghana, and Côte d’Ivoire and has reached six million plus learners since its inception in 2013. Its product TeachMobile is a platform that provides in-service and pre-service teachers with tailor-made courses and teaching tools such as lesson plans and classroom activities. There is also real-time support provided by subject matter experts and educators
iCog Labs is a private research and development company based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, collaborating with international AI research groups and serving customers around the world. The company has helped its customers with a variety of projects, with a core specialty in artificial intelligence. Partnering with iCog Labs, tech developer Betelhem Dessie founded an initiative called iCog Anyone Can Code (iCog-ACC) to create a platform in which children throughout the developing world can have the same opportunity she had when she was a child. iCog Labs currently operates in different cities of Ethiopia with a vision to go global.
M-Shule is the first personalized, mobile learning platform in Africa to connect learners with tailored tutoring, training, assessments, and data through SMS.
Siyavula Education is a customized online learning platform that uses the latest research on motivation, sequencing, and cognitive science to optimize student study habits and improve test scores.
The platform Zibuza.net aims to improve teacher capacity by providing a common platform for teachers that allows them to connect with their peers and other education stakeholders. It is an online professional learning community that gives teachers access to high-quality teaching resources like lesson plans, classroom activities, past exam papers and memos, courseware, tools, and files.
Kytabu Co. Ltd. has developed technology that enables students to access short and engaging curriculum content in text, audio, and video formats through a mobile application.
Litemore has developed a mobile-first data management platform that allows students access to Kenya’s best instructors anywhere, at any time.
Instill Education is a mobile teacher-training platform that provides educators with bite-sized and practical content using an approach that reinforces learning and deepens retention.
Chalkboard Education offers low tech software and services for institutions to create and track training programs on mobile, without the internet
HITCH is an educational video platform that provides underserved African schools with curated, high quality educational content.