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Enhancing Quality of EducationThrough ICT
Amanuel Abrha
IKTA e.V.Informations- & Kommunikations-technologie für Afrika e.V.
Our Vision
Filling the digital gap in Africa through ICT!
Poor quality and non- engaging education
Challenge
theory and memorizing
no real life application
hardly technology
Result: High level youth unemployment
Technology
65 million mobile phone subscriptions by 2015 in Ethiopia
Africa 2nd largest mobile market in the world
50$ Smartphones by 2013
CREATIVITY
Education that focuses on
COLLABORATION
Ways of access
Entrepreneurship
English
Math
SO YOU‘RE TELLING ME USING MOBILE PHONE
WILL HELP ME LEARN BETTER?
Incentives
game elements student ambassadors
Scalability
Partners (to-be)governmental Institutions NGOs
companies
Awards
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
