ratiogram.com
It is estimated that of all STEM students in Kenya, less than a third are female. The number is much lower in neighbouring countries in East Africa.
The lack of custom solutions for
Founded in April 2020, to offset the effects of Corona virus on education in Kenya, ratiogram.com is an e-learning platform, focused mainly on STEM subjects, that collects data on the state of education in the country and goes ahead to provide custom solutions for students in Kenya. For instance, the website offers courses in local dialects as a custom solution for easy learning.
Kenya alone has
- Strengthen competencies, particularly in STEM and digital literacy, for girls and young women to effectively transition from education to employment
As far as education for marginalized girls and women in Kenya is concerned, our solution,
- Pilot: An organization deploying a tested product, service, or business model in at least one community
- A new application of an existing technology
Our company is under the hypothesis that, to effectively reach and keep the user, a custom offer and solution must be provided to them. We therefore use data in such a way that, each user of our platform, has a unique experience and receives unique content according to their nee
Currently, we offer a website, based on the MEAN stack and incorporates state of the art data crunching methods and artificial intelligence algorithms.
- Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
- Big Data
- Software and Mobile Applications
- Women & Girls
- Urban
- Low-Income
- Middle-Income
- Minorities & Previously Excluded Populations
- 4. Quality Education
- Kenya
- Ethiopia
- Rwanda
- Tanzania
- Uganda
current users registered : 9800
in one year: 200000
in 5 years: 1000000
Barries List
1. Shortage of internet enabled devices in rural areas
2. Financial problem that affects the amount of internet data a user can access in a day.
1. The growing adoption of mobile internet usage works to our advantage. All we can do is wait.
2. Plan on optimizing the current content to use extremely low internet bandwidth.
- Hybrid of for-profit and nonprofit
8 employees
10 partners/ contractors
At the current stage, our team is comprised of graduate software engineers with the requisite knowledge working hard to get the from the pilot to the growth stage. We have two mentors with backgrounds in the education sector (both are university lecturers) that help us navigate the non-coding areas :)
Being a relatively new organisation, we have not sought partnership as we are still working on the core technologies of the platform.
- Individual consumers or stakeholders (B2C)
- Funding and revenue model
- Board members or advisors
We mainly offer STEM subjects on our platform and would use the prize to source tutors to create custom free STEM courses for our users.
We use data to provide custom experinces for users to encourage them to learn! If we get the prize, we can get the best talent to boost the data and AI department for better result for our users!
