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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Join us for the GESF 2019 Address and the final of the Next Billion Edtech Prize.
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 Kenyan mom, with intention of bringing up her child, Orie, as a bilingual Kiswahili/ English speaker discovers Akili and Me on youtube. Listen to her rave review!
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In 2016, a video of a schoolboy in Tanzania being beaten by his male teachers started circulating on social media. Read more
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/
We are happy to announce that we are the recipients of a grant from the Omidyar Network!Read more
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.
