Inspiring youth to create jobs themselves
- Business
- Employment
- Economic development
- Education
- Information & communication technology
- Youth development
- Social enterprise
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Founding Story
Eskinder
Mamo
, BE
18-34
Male
Less than a year
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Still in idea phase, but looking to launch soon
Access to talent, Access to technology, Access to economic opportunity.
We have not implemented the idea yet. However all the responses from stakeholders and potential partners have been very positive. Furthermore the positive impacts of our enterprise have been confirmed by many studies. There also some projects which can as proof of concept. In our pilot country Ethiopia of the current 3.6 million secondary school students only around 30000 can attend vocational training and ca. 130 000 can go to universities. leavng the vast majority with poor career prospects. Furthermore there is a huge lack of educational resources such as textbooks.
The Ethiopian population grows at a 2.7% rate annually and is expected to rise from current 84 million to 96 million in 2015 and surpasses 170 million in the year 2050. Ethiopia faces major challenges of providing adequate employment opportunities for the growing number of young people. According to the World Bank 44% of the population is currently under 18. On the other hand Ethiopia’s mobile telecom industry recorded the highest growth rate in 2011 at 173 %.Smartphones are entering the African market 4 times faster than PCs. A technology research predicts by the end of 2013, there will be smart phones retailing at less than $50 in many African markets.
We help with our service to get access to high qulity learning materials and boost job creation. their self-esteem will rise as well.
Developing a prototype
Cooperation talks to potential partners: Ethiopian government and schools, Nokia, Intel, Junior Achievement
Adoption of curriculum
Hiring software developers
Piloting the mobile learning application
Promotion of the application to students and teachers, e.g. best performing students selected to become school ambassadors
Training for teachers in order to encourage champion teachers to popularize the application.
Development of a manual for students
Cooperation talks to the Center for International Migration (funding), ICE Addis (co-working spaces and experts), German-Ethiopian Students & Academics Association(networking)were positive.
Upcoming contacts include: Ethiopian Ministry of Education - nationwide implementation, teachers training;Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation - zero rating of data transfer; Intel- mobile application development; Nokia - cooperation for math application, training of application developers; British Council - development of English app;Junior Achievement - entrepreneurship curriculum and training
We are very happy about any feedbacks, inputs as well as collaboration. From our side we can offer to share our best practices and help with our expertise, e.g. in marketing or software development. If needed we can also offer our network both to connect to others as well as to promote one's projects.