Cool4Skul

Enable Africa's University students to get access to affordable digital devices and programming/problem solving skills to enable them compete in a digital driven economy.

Without proper access to a laptop, the majority of African university students are disengaged from the true academic experience. Access to knowledge, tools and inspiration is blocked by the costs of purchase

Cool4Skul offers affordable high-quality laptops with a financing scheme bundled into tuition fee for students who could otherwise not afford the full upfront payment. We bring the best offer to the table through negotiated partnerships with trusted players like Microsoft, Dell, Lenovo Jamii Bora Bank and all universities

We are the one-stop-partner for students who can finally pay for their personal laptop and benefit from Cool4Skull stimulating digital ecosystem to plug-in to their own future

In a fast changing digital driven global economy, unemployment continues to beleaguer the youth in Africa. The hope to this perennial problem is educating and developing digital entrepreneurship skills for the youth especially in higher education institutions. Without proper access to a laptop, the majority of the students in this higher education institutions are disengaged from this modern academic experience. Access to knowledge,  skills such as programming, tools and inspiration is blocked by the costs of purchase. This means that the ability of this students to develop digital entrepreneurship opportunities become increasingly limited. 

With access to a laptop that you pay for as part of your fees in campus coupled by the digital entrepreneurship programs such as hackathons, access as well as digital skills becomes guaranteed for every student joining the university. This means that the students have more locus of control on determining their entrepreneurial journey after graduation. 

1. 20 universities are targeted in the phase 1 of the project
2. 190,000 university students will benefit from the program to get access to a laptop and skill building tools. 
3. 4 startups in the each of the 20 Universities in Phase 1 - This will be done through hackathons. 
4. Distribution of the devices will be done through Cool4Skul ecosystem of current and potential partners
5. Digital empowerment of the students provided with devices will be done through developed pre installed tools and apps. 

Track the number of users/ beneficiary in each university through the cool4skul platform - 20 universities sign up to our program

number of commercialized product/ innovations coming from the Universities - 4 startups in each of the 20 universities

Number of boot camps and users of the pre installed apps. - Digital Skill building in the universities

It optimizes the existing infrastructure to offer an affordable and sustainable solution to unemployment. 

This program targets economically disadvantaged students in higher education institutions whose prospects for employment are not high. Using our platform the students are able to acquire an affordable device that they pay for in installments and gets access to a digital entrepreneurship driven program. 

Through our existing platform www.cool4skul.com 

We are able to generate revenue from the affordable devices that we sell to the students and we get stake in the startups that we support in the universities. 

http://www.techweez.com/2017/07/21/cool4skul-edtech-startup-kenya/

Solve offer us an opportunity to learn and grow in our thinking and approach to the problem of unemployment in Africa. We would like to explore and network with individuals engaged in solving big problems. 

Silver Martz

George Gathoni

Samuel Karanja

Sankei Kenga

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