elimu.ai
Hundreds of millions of children lack access to quality basic education. And two thirds of children who are enrolled in school never reach proficiency in reading skills.
Before the pandemic, 53 percent of children in low- and middle-income countries were living in Learning Poverty, that is, they were unable to read and understand a simple text by age 10. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the figure was closer to 90 percent.
Our solution is Educational Technology which enables a child to learn foundational literacy and numeracy skills, and that works offline.
We develop Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for teaching children the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic.
We target primary age children (about 6 to 11 years) who lack access to quality basic education, and who speak either Hindi or Filipino.
We have experience with building and distributing educational technology in Kenya and in rural villages in Tanzania.
- Enable personalized learning and individualized instruction for learners who are most at risk for disengagement and school drop-out
- Pilot
We seek help to distribute and scale our technology around the globe.
- Product / Service Distribution (e.g. expanding client base)
The technology can be used by a child alone, without relying on the availability of qualified teachers.
Year Children Impacted
2022 120
2023 240
2024 720
2025 2,880
2026 14,400
Year Hardware Cost Per Child Total Hardware Cost
2022 $75.00 $9,000
2023 $63.75 $15,300
2024 $54.19 $39,015
2025 $46.06 $132,651
2026 $39.15 $563,767
We measure a child's learning progress using metrics aligning with the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) and Early Grade Mathematics Assessment (EGMA).
We expect our technology to have an impact on the global learning crisis because EdTech enables learning personalized to each child, and the cost of obtaining the necessary hardware (e.g. Android tablet) continues to drop each year.
We are developing a collection of educational Android apps and games. The code is open source, and the content is licensed under Creative Commons, to enable anyone to access and use the software for free.
- A new application of an existing technology
- Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
- Software and Mobile Applications
- 4. Quality Education
- India
- Philippines
- India
- Kenya
- Philippines
- Tanzania
- Nonprofit
Since elimu.ai is an open source project, anyone is welcome to contribute towards this goal. We welcome different skills, cultures, perspectives, attitudes, and experiences. Also see our Code of Conduct: https://github.com/elimu-ai/wi...
We receive donations, and those funds are spent equally between these three main activities:
1. Content ??
2. Engineering ????
3. Distribution ??
- Individual consumers or stakeholders (B2C)
We plan to rely on three sources of funding:
- Donations (from individuals & companies)
- Grants (from digital public goods supporters, etc)
- Investment returns
These will all be used to cover the three main activities mentioned above (in "What is your business model?").
Our current financial model (donations + grants + investments) enables us to sustainably pay contributors (content creators and engineers) each month. The amounts are still relatively low, but the model works.
As an example, we are using Gitcoin Grants for funding part of our expenses: https://gitcoin.co/grants/