Wondacard

UNICEF report, 10.5 million of the country’s children aged 5-14 years are not in school. Only 61% of 6 to 11-year-olds regularly attend primary school. 
In response to school closures, many eLearning platforms, TV and Radio Program for live Teaching have been launched to limit the disruption of education.
YET THIS HAVE NOT SOLVED THE PROBLEM IN AFRICA.
WHY?
• The purchase of radios or TV became a trade-off that cannot be afford by families that earn below $1 per day.
• Unequal access to technology
• Unequal access to educational learning resources
• Device Challenge
• Power Challenge
Wondacard tackle this problem, Wondacard is a complete suite of eLearning platform which will comprise of online web portal, mobile software and offline storage dongle and tablets. This will help to deliver rich and world class educational content. Wondacard is the only solution that deliver quality education at barely no cost for everyone with social media engagement capabilities.

Over 290 Million Children and Youth Are Out of School according to UNESCO 2020, and UNICEF report, 10.5 million of the country’s children aged 5-14 years are not in school. Only 61% of 6 to 11-year-olds regularly attend primary school.
Some states in the north east and north west of the country have more than half of the girls not enrolled in schools as marginalization ensures that girls are deprived of basic education.
On 19 March 2020, the Federal Ministry of Education approved school closures as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In response to school closures, many eLearning platforms, TV and Radio Program for live Teaching have been launched to limit the disruption of education.

YET THIS HAVE NOT SOLVED THE PROBLEM IN AFRICA.
WHY?
• The purchase of radios or TV became a trade-off that cannot be afford by families that earn below $1 per day and faced harsh economic realities.
• Unequal access to technology: Lack of access to technology or good internet connectivity is an obstacle to continued learning.
• Unequal access to educational learning resources:
• Device Challenge: Many students do not have their own computer system or smart phone.
• Power Challenge: 

Wondacard is an online/offline eLearning solution that combine the power of Social Media Functionality to deliver quality academic content.

Wondacard is a complete suite of eLearning platform which will comprise of online web portal, mobile software and offline storage
dongle and tablets. This will help to deliver rich and world class educational content to the lowest grassroots.
The Platform for leaning Online enable schools and educators create and administer courses online, run live classes and conduct online tests and exam, payments integration, etc. Wondacard works hard to provide tools that empowers Teachers/Tutors of all boards not just to better understand what their students need and how best to help them but also provide a platform that enable them facilitate teaching and learning process. Teachers can run live classes with the learners, customize and add contents, conduct class quiz and exam.

What make WONDACARD stand out of every other similar solution is that it is not just a full featured eLearning Solution but also a social network system with social functionalities never seen in any of the existing social media big players. The LINKUP feature allow user arrange a meetup with other people in the platform to achieve a common goal(eg Reading)

Our solution Wondacard target mostly 10.5 million of the Nigeria's children aged 5-14 years who are not in school. We aspire to bring quality education to the underserved population, primary(Basic) and Secondary(High School) pupils in the rural areas with inadequate access to technologies that enhance quality education.

Wondacard is a proficient platform birthed to enable learning in Africa without the underlying limitations (power challenge, Internet and learning content). this assist in solving the problem created by the global pandemic, where students are not allowed to attend a physical classroom. We provide a comprehensive curriculum and extra curriculum-based contents both in video, text and Images format from Nursery to Secondary School. Our target to have mobile learning devices that is solar-powered and enable students to access the learning contents offline. Also to enable us reach people in the rural area and support indigent children. Dungle serve as alternative to the customize device in order to reduce cost for the students that already have access to mobile device (They only need to purchase the dungle and download the App).

• For schools

This part of the platform offers to schools, tutors or students everything needed to be engage and be able to manage Day-To-Day activities on their space.

FOR THE SCHOOLS

The school need a registered Account according to the product they want to implement in order to have access and configure their space and benefits of the following features:

E-Learning & Virtual Classroom Platform

Create and administer courses online, run live classes and conduct online tests, payments integration, etc.

Customize Learning Content

Use our trusted contents to enhance your teacher skill with thousands of assessment for students

School Management Software

Save time, cost and human resource to manage and develop schools. Teachers, Students, Parents, Finance and so on.

FOR THE TUTORS

In this space they can creates and Sells Beautiful Online Courses

There are people searching for information that a tutor understand and they’re willing to pay for it. Their skills and experiences are unique and valuable. With this platform, they can share their knowledge, and be rewarded for it!

The Tutors can engage their learners anywhere at anytime because we furnish teachers to empower the learners using our existing resources to facilitate teaching and learning process.

FOR THE STUDENTS

As a Learner, student can register, pay and build Indebt Academic Knowledge, Sound Comprehension in Science, Arts, Commercials, Entrepreneurial Skills and More.

FOR INDIGENT CHILDREN

Less Privileged Children and Girl Child Education

We aims to provide quality education and learning process to all the children, especially for the most needy children and families because education is a right and everybody have the right to access a quality education.

We make a particular accent on the Girl Child Education and that is why we promise to give a scholarship to every girl child who subscribe to our website, particularly those in certain regions of Africa where the girl child is denied easy access to affordable and quality education.

Engagement

During the developmental phase of the project, we periodically organize virtual workshop, for Tutors and Students. This enable us to bring them into the development and testing phase of the Wondacard project. A good number of them also end up as part of the team.

Wondacard Increase the engagement of learners in remote, hybrid, and physical environments, by providing easy access to quality education using customized gadget, software and web technologies.

Wondacard aspire to bridge the gap between children in the urban areas with easy access to technologies, quality schools, quality education and those in the rural, underserve without access to technologies, schools and quality education.

With this I can state that Wondacard solution fully align Challenge and your selected dimension.

The Wondacard solution is on Prototype stage of development because the product have already in testing and production usage. About 20 schools have been signup on the platform and their teacher are actively testing the system. Also we have about 1200 teacher who have signed up on the solution in our last workshop and promotion.

These teacher and their student are actively using the platform on periodic bases which helps us debug and apply improvement changes and user experience on the platform.

Our solution is very innovative because it will help to curb the effect of covid-19 restrictions on education in Nigeria and beyond. It will also help to reduce the number of out of school children in Nigeria and beyond. WONDACARD will greatly improve the standard of education in rural and sub-urban areas. 

It will be the first eLearning solution that works with the country's academic curriculum in partnership with schools to deliver educational content and live classes. Student can study online or offline, remotely or in school and graduate without paying high cost of fees, especially for indigent student, with support from stake holders and Government.

One of the most important parts of WONDACARD business is that of training teachers who are ignorant of using technology to deliver knowledge properly  and the benefit of engaging student online while providing the necessary tools and manpower to make the integration process easy and at no cost.

Our business is modeled to fit into time shift by applying changes, improvement and grow with changes in technology.

We provide best product for much lower price. We are always and continually improving our technology stack.

We are currently serving about 1200 teacher and over 15,000 students in our platform.

In the next one year, our solution is expected to actively server over 5 million students.

Finally, in five years time we expect to serve actively serve over 80 million students across Nigeria, Africa and beyond.

We measure our impact by how many students are actively engaged in our platform, how much of students with low income parents are we able to empower with quality education. The impact of our solution perfectly align with the goal number 4 of the United Nations, SDGs which is "Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all" and indirectly align with goals number 9 and 10 which is "Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure" and "Reduced Inequality".

We also measure our impact by how many teachers/tutors are actively engaged with us, generating revenue and making a more lucrative source of income through various WONDACARD solutions.

We also measure our impact by how student respond to our solution, for example

• Are they fully engaging with it?
• Do they enjoy learning with our technologies?
• What should we improve to make it more captivating to learn? etc.

5 Works full time,

7 Works part time,

2 on contract.

Our team is made up of experts in various technology and academic areas that make up our solution and idea, with up to 6 years of professional experience in their various fields.

Our team members are made up of individuals with positive and great track records in their industries and area of specialization.

Our business and solution is targeted to serve mostly students, teachers and indirectly schools. Our team is made up of academic staff of school/universities, academic office holders at government level, ICT and software professional, part time students. We believe that this set of people that makes up our team are well positioned to deliver this solution at it's best. 

We believe that our team member highly represent the interest of those we serve and we are able to understand how to do better from the start through contributions which help to fine tune our ideas and come up with more flexible strategies. Finally we also know that we will get even more better in lesser time that expected, which will make us deliver much more impact on improving education in our communities.

It's clearly evident that diverse teams of varying racial and ethnic makeup produce better results. They perform better financially, gain a competitive edge when recruiting top talent, experience less employee turnover, and offer greater benefits for those they serve. With our experience, we have developed approach to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive leadership team.

CUSTOMIZING OUR VISION AND STRATEGY SPONTANEOUSLY: Customize our organization’s diversity vision, definition, and rationale to fit the organization’s unique culture.
FOCUS ON IMPACT AND METRICS: Identify a set of metrics based on our customized vision and strategy, and ensure that our metrics are measuring both inputs and outputs. Review our key performance indicators annually at board of directors level and at least quarterly at executive level.
FOCUS ON RECRUITING AND SELECTION PRACTICES: Provide training for unbiased interviewing and selection processes, and establish strategic partnerships that connect our organization with diverse talent pipelines.
INVEST IN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TO RETAIN HIGH PERFORMERS: Employ a range of formal and informal professional development tools, such as mentoring, coaching, and education opportunities.
PROMPT ONGOING DISCUSSION: Regularly engage in open, honest, and multidirectional dialogue at different levels, and work on developing a shared understanding that achieving diversity takes commitment and hard work from every member of our team.

Most important part of our application is that we want to leverage on networking and contacts through Solve's program which will opened doors to avenues that we would otherwise have not been able to access including connection with influencers, industry leaders, and experts through solve program. Solve program will be a benchmark for us to reference when building public and private sector partnerships around our project Wondacard, this will enable the solution to get the support it needs to serve up to the grassroots level.

 The Solve's pre-seed fundraising will assist further to carefully execute our mapped out plans which involves our short term and long term plan, also we will strategically tackle our Short Term Barriers and long term barriers. Finally, providing our basic business needs to grow including more manpower by carefully hiring the needed skills for all branches. Finally, we will carefully boost our marketing strategy. Also, implement other social responsibility.

We will need partnership with mobile hardware company which will help to provide, which will help deploy offline educational content through customized tablets and dongle.

Samsung, Nokia: For customized tablets and other mobile hardware.

Zoom Technologies

We will grow our solution with all the much needed technologies and manpower, also expanding our branches to impact more communities or countries we operate.

We will carefully execute our mapped out plans which involves our short term and long term plan. We will carefully provide everything that my business needs to grow including more manpower by carefully hiring the needed skills for all branches. Finally, we will carefully boost our marketing strategy. Also, implement other social responsibility such as deploying educational content for free to underserved and refugee communities

Our solution provide quality, free and affordable online/offline education for both indigent pupils and to the refugees. We will grow our solution with all the much needed technologies and manpower, also expanding our branches to impact more communities or countries we operate.

We will carefully execute our mapped out plans which involves our short term and long term plan. We will carefully provide everything that my business needs to grow including more manpower by carefully hiring the needed skills for all branches. Finally, we will carefully boost our marketing strategy. Also, implement other social responsibility such as deploying educational content for free to underserved and refugee communities.

Our innovative solution have a lot of opportunities for providing free quality education to the refugees. 

We will grow our solution with all the much needed technologies and manpower, also expanding our branches to impact more communities or countries we operate.

We will carefully execute our mapped out plans which involves our short term and long term plan. We will carefully provide everything that my business needs to grow including more manpower by carefully hiring the needed skills for all branches. Finally, we will carefully boost our marketing strategy. Also, implement other social responsibility such as deploying educational content for free to underserved and refugee communities.

We will grow our solution with all the much needed technologies and manpower, also expanding our branches to impact more communities or countries we operate.

We will carefully execute our mapped out plans which involves our short term and long term plan. We will carefully provide everything that my business needs to grow including more manpower by carefully hiring the needed skills for all branches. Finally, we will carefully boost our marketing strategy. Also, implement other social responsibility such as deploying educational content for free to underserved and refugee communities.