The jury for the sixth edition of the App Africa Challenge has delivered its verdict. The ten selected entries come from Cameroon, Mauritania, Rwanda, and other countries.
Launched on October 8, the sixth edition of the App Africa Challenge has announced its first ten winners. This year's challenge was to come up with a digital service that would contribute to children's education. Just under 1,000 projects were submitted, and ten were selected to continue the adventure.
The finalists are invited to refine their projects in the hope of winning the grand prize of €15,000.
The selected projects are as follows: Owona Marylène
(Cameroon): Our goal is to create a generation of young Africans who have alternative learning opportunities related to the needs of their environment and in their local languages.
Saba Fatimata
(Burkina Faso): Educt-us is an educational platform for children. One of its features is an online TV channel that offers learning programs for children aged 7-12 in comic book form.
Cho Nkarimbi Valérie
(Cameroon): Miya Academy is a smart and objective electronic educational assistant that works even without an internet connection.
Segnon Michel
(Benin): Our project is a set of educational applications that allows secondary school students to learn mathematics and physics in a smart way while giving them the impression that they are playing.
Hien-Kouame Christelle
(Ivory Coast): Access to the school curriculum in the form of course summaries by chapter and subject, followed by a series of multiple-choice questions to assess the learner's understanding.
Niyizibyose Confident
(Rwanda): Augmented Future enables independent and fun learning for elementary school students on the other side, solving the problem of parents who do not have access to additional learning materials to support their children.
Djigui Derick
(Benin): MySchool Life is an integrated parental monitoring and school management platform that brings parents, teachers, and administrators of elementary, secondary, and other schools closer together than ever before.
Sidi Camara
(Mauritania): Khrankompé's goal is to produce all primary school lessons explained in the local language and accessible offline on smartphones and USB drives, while retaining the language of instruction.
Kitio Arielle
(Cameroon): abcCode is a fun and intuitive educational and environmental coding program that develops creativity and introduces children to creative programming from an early age.
Kone Raki
(Mali): The app provides children with video lessons in two languages (French and Bambara) created by the country's best teachers and professors, whom we have carefully selected. The app is a first in Mali.
Launched by RFI and France 24 and its partners Axian, Orange, Digital Africa, Emerging Valley, and AIMS, the sixth edition of the App Africa Challenge aims to reward digital innovations that improve children's education in Africa.
Source: press release