MIT Solve

Solution & Team Overview

Solution name:

Green Tech

Short solution summary:

By providing virtual training of computer skills, coding and robotics during the covid-19 season. Also provide trainings on open spaces

In what city, town, or region is your solution team based?

Maseru, Lesotho

Who is the Team Lead for your solution?

Palesa Libe, the co founder of Green Tech and the trainer as well.

Which Challenge Area does your solution most closely address?

Respond (Decrease transmission & spread), such as: Optimal preventive interventions & uptake maximization, Cutting through “infodemic” & enabling better response, Data-driven learnings for increased efficacy of interventions

What specific problem are you solving?

The schools were closed during the lockdown, but the children had to keep on learning to avoid idling. And as covid-19 seems to be here to stay for a while, almost everything now depends on technology. People host online meetings, conduct online tutoring. So we bridge the technology gap by starting to train people on simple steps into technology. Hence being in the position to compete in the fourth industrial revolution.

Who does your solution serve, and what needs of theirs does it address?

The target audience is the youth at school, both at high school and tertiary level. The coding and robotics skills are crucial to them because everything lately uses technology. Some have individual problems, they ask regarding on aspects of their learning, from simple computer skills to different higher language programming. We ask the young to form their own groups to pass the knowledge to others and find out what are their challenges.

What is your solution’s stage of development?

Proof of Concept: A venture or organisation building and testing its prototype, research, product, service, or business/policy model, and has built preliminary evidence or data