Kelass Na Ngai (KNN)

Kelass na ngai has developed a solution that bridges the gap between online education with poor people who can not to afford internet connexion to continue their education during covid 19 pandemic

Nearly one billion girls and young women around the world are out of school because of COVID-19. And at a time when governments around the world have turned to e-learning, 89% of households in sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to a home computer (UNESCO) and 80% do not have an Internet subscription to pursue their studies online. Even where mobile phones allow access to distance learning, some 56 million people live in areas with poor internet quality, at prices they cannot afford. KelassNaNgai provides app and a metropolitan area wireless network to solve two problems:

the inability of parents to provide in-home care for their girls.

the inability to access quality education during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

Our solution consists in installing a wifi network covering the whole city in order to give access via smartphone and mobile money payment to a local web server on which is hosted a web application that offers written and video courses, corrected quizzes and exercises and an AI that recommends courses and exercises according to the scores obtained by the learner during the quizzes. The application also offers a forum on which learners will exchange on subjects or notions they don't understand.

Kelass na Ngai is designated for students who lack the means to afford an internet connection to take online courses while staying at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to UNESCO nearly one billion girls on earth are no longer in school because of the disease at COVID-19.  And 89% of households in sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to a home computer and 82% of them do not have internet access to continue their education online. Even where smartphones can enable learners to access courses at a distance, some 56 million live in places with poor internet quality and at excessively high prices.

Platforms such as Edx in the US, fun-mooc and openclassrooms in France have been very successful in recent years. But sub-Saharan Africa is struggling to use these platforms because of the problem of internet access and also because of the content that is sometimes different from the official local programmes. Unlike these platforms, our solution provides access to quality education with content that is consistent with local curricula while eliminating the costs associated with the Internet.

Kelass na ngai combines the python framework for the Django web, mobile payment technologies, artificial intelligence and a wifi metropolitan area network to broadcast video or written course materials.

The metropolitan area network is used to connect via wifi the student's smartphone to the web application hosted on a web server. The web application is designed based on Django.
 Django is a high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Built by experienced developers, it takes a lot of the hassle out of web development, so you can focus on writing your application without having to reinvent the wheel. It's free and open source.

Mobile payment money is commonly used in sub-Saharan Africa because it is easy to use and the service is heavily used by people of all classes. Our solution uses this technology for course payment.

Our web application is based on the learning machine to offer a system of course and exercise recommendations based on the difficulties encountered by the students during the quizzes.

The canadian MTLWIFI project covered the entire island of Montreal with 826 wifi terminals. this wifi network is the most extensive in the world. but it is simply limited to providing internet. Adding a datacenter and a web server to this network could allow a wide range of applications and content to be delivered.

https://montreal.ca/programmes/mltwifi for more details on MTLWIFI.

Our solution is to design a wireless metropolitan area network on which a web-based application will offer video-corrected courses and exercises to help students continue their education at home during and after the COVID-19 health crisis. Our short-term goal is to help improve women's school enrolment rates.
This goal feeds into our long-term goal of eradicating poverty and reducing child mortality. Indeed, according to Unesco, increasing access to education leads to an increase in the enrolment rate of women, resulting in a 15% reduction in infant mortality if all girls finished primary school and half if they finished secondary school.
Educated women are also more likely to find a job: In Brazil, only 37% of women who have not completed primary education are working. This figure rises to 50 per cent if they have completed primary school, and 60 per cent if they have completed secondary school.

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Our goals is to apply the same solution to other countries.

5 people work in my team.

Our team consists of members with at least one year of experience in web development and network systems. Our team, mainly made up of students, managed to implement the same web application in the local network of our school in order to allow students to publish videos in which they explain and solve exercises that their fellow students found difficult to understand.

We are applying to Solve in the hope of winning the funds that will enable me to implement this solution in my country. My country has a high drop-out rate due to failures in state examinations. With this solution, we believe we can help students better prepare for their exams.

By improving access to education for women and girls, we are increasing their chances of getting a job in the future. In addition, our solution will allow girls to avoid having a child at an early age. Indeed, girls who have reached higher levels of education are less likely to have a child at an early age. And according to UNESCO, if all girls in sub-Saharan Africa, South and West Asia completed primary school, the number of adolescent girls with a child under 17 would be reduced by 10% and this rate would be reduced by 60% if they reached secondary school. And the rate of early marriage would be reduced by 14% if girls completed primary school, and by two-thirds if they went on to secondary school.
With this award, we will be able to quickly deploy our solution in other cities to allow more women and girls to benefit from our solution.

Our solution, thanks to the elimination of excessive internet costs, allows the most vulnerable girls and women to benefit from quality education without having to regularly pay large sums of money that their parents cannot bear because of the irregularity of their incomes.

With this award, we will be able to quickly deploy our solution in other
cities to allow more women and girls to benefit from our solution.