Tanzanian-based EdTech startup, UBONGO emerged the overall winner of this year’s NEXT Billion EdTech Prize and awarded the NEXT Billion Prize trophy at the Global Education & Skills Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Doreen Kessy, Ubongo COO, explains “In Tanzania, we live in a culture where the quieter the child, the better she is perceived.
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Ubongo is one of the 30 finalists selected to compete for the 2019 Next Billion EdTech Price at the Global Education & Skills Forum in Dubai on 22 – 24 March 2019.
A non-profit social enterprise in Tanzania is paving way for children’s edutainment programs in Africa.
An interview with the Ubongo Team who is using a new form of entertainment with learning and education for kids in Africa.
“Ubongo is chosen by the World Bank as one of twenty interesting and intriguing innovative edtech projects from around the world.”
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Nisha Ligon’s article on the importance of Play in Early Childhood Development” is featured in WISE: review.
Ubongo has been featured on HDIF’s new “Digital Principles in Practice” site:
http://www.hdif-tz.org/digital/
By empowering parents to support their children’s pre-literacy foundation, UNREASONABLE.is aims to give East African kids a stronger start in school and life, and a hope of breaking Africa’s intergenerational cycle of poverty. They are a strong leadership partner of Ubongo.
Click here to read the article: https://unreasonable.is/can-illiterate-parents-be-their-kids-first-teachers/
Ubongo is Africa's leading producer of kids' edutainment. As a non-profit social enterprise we create fun, localised and multi-platform educational content that helps kids learn, and leverage their learning to change their lives. We reach millions of families across Africa through accessible technologies like TV, radio and mobile phones.
