Patience is the winner of the Youth Innovation Challenge in Ghana.
INNOVATION MARKETPLACE
NIGERIA


BRIEF OF SUBMITTED SOLUTION
Our core mission is to improve the efficiency and distribution of digital education especially for young people in underserved communities by providing learner support services. We will achieve this by doing three things;1. Provide cash or in kind rewards for learning new skills online: This reward will serve as a form of motivation and offset some of the economic cost of learning. Our reward framework will be based on demography, geography, time commitment to learn amongst other factors. Certain milestones will be necessary to unlock rewards and would vary from course to course.2. Provide loans as financial aid for users to gain online certifications & degrees: Users can access simple and easy loans to upskill and gain certifications or degrees that can increase their employability or professional value.3. Enable learner communities: Learner communities can provide a space and a structure for people to align around a shared goal of learning a particular skill. We will enable such communities through events, workshops, exhibitions, meet-ups, community mentoring etc. Through these learner communities, SMEs and large enterprises that partner with us can help solidify expertise and provide experiential knowledge for learners.This service will be distributed via digital software and community centers.1. Digital Software – Motivar will build a web and app based platform that will leverage AI and Big Data technology. Individual users will be able to register accounts, take a personality test, and select a skill/course they want to learn. In instances the user is unsure what skill to learn the platform will provide suggestions based on user personality and other data. The platform will be an aggregator and serve as a window to other online learning platforms. It will curate similar courses from affiliate e-learning platforms by quality and sort into two categories – Free Certified and Paid Certified courses.2. Community Centers – Our community center will be physical infrastructure in poor locales with low distribution of internet enabled devices and low digital navigation skills amidst our target demographic. It will be equipped with computers and other digital learning aids. The centers will be managed by Motivar and funded in partnership with local community interests.

SECTOR
Education and Skills

IDEA
Providing the requisite tools for the youth to find, start and complete digital courses easily.