2023-06-07 22:13:48
With more than 50% of its population under the age of 25, Africa is the youngest continent in the world. Education is therefore a central issue taken up by several African start-ups present at Gitex in Marrakech, the continent’s largest technology fair, organized from May 31 to June 2.
A digital library, online course assistants or even virtual classrooms… These are the services offered by the Chadian start-up Genoskul. « Genoskul is an educational technology industry that aims to democratize and centralize education to make it accessible to everyone. We are a platform that uses artificial intelligence to improve the education system and therefore allow everyone to train themselves, or equip all educational structures with an intelligent system, allowing them to improve and position themselves at the cutting edge, with the evolution of technology “, explains sor founder, Kargo Valéry.
If the Genoskul platform is free, most EdTech start-ups are paid and are only accessible to a population already educated. This is the case of Dozzia assistance. The Nigerian startup offers a digital application to develop a more transparent learning environment for children through a collaborative system between school and parents. “ We have developed a solution via three mobile and web applications. One for parents, another for teachers and a third for the school. In the application, the teachers fill in information regarding the child which is then processed by our artificial intelligence tools to finally be shared with the parents concerned. This allows them to know what subjects to work on with their children and thus help them improve. says its founder, Mubarak Robyn.
Lightbulb Education is a South African start-up. Companies looking for professional training, universities and schools, make up the 17,000 users of the platform. They are looking for an online learning supplement. For Allan Mushabe, CEO and co-founder of Lightbulb Education, it is difficult for EdTech start-ups to offer their services for free and on a continental scale. ” Our system is capable of being deployed across the entire continent, but it would be expensive… We would need enormous resources, but also the support of telecommunications companies. And they always ask “what regarding my profit?” They will systematically look at the cost of deploying a cellular antenna and how much it will bring them. If the ratio isn’t right, they won’t. »
Although several hundred million Africans have access to telecommunications via mobile telephone, the lack of infrastructure persists in certain regions, widens inequalities… And in particular hinders access to technologies developed to facilitate access to ‘education.
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