MIT Solve

Solution Overview

Solution Name

TechHero Ghana

One-line solution summary.

Techhero Ghana is tech start-up that is into building applications, database systems, games, and software especially for social impact

Elevator pitch

What is your solution?

FlendyAds is a platform which seek to elevate businesses and works of African Entrepreneurs.

It simple to sign up and provides massive attention for your products and services. The aim of FlendyAds is to catapult entrepreneurial start-ups, businesses and reward slight efforts of sharing Ads digitally.

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HeuriLearn is a platform where anyone can make their world a classroom. There is convenience and individuals can learn, take quizzes and gain certificates without any confines. It is germane for both students and non-students and has digital tools ensures heuristic learning. Tutors/content creators are rewarded 65% remuneration per Ad views monthly.

HeuriLearn also serve as a learning management system . Our aim is to promote practical education and increase technology in education especially in basic and high schools .

HeuriLearn has feature where Youtubers can embed/link their videos and not necessarily re-upload to their HeuriLearn Account. Has Games for recess

We aim to include a portal which will enable students apply to several african universities with a single submission and share their life beyond the classroom. Most African universities based admissions on solely academics(WASSCE) which does not promote problem-solving ,community-involvement and practical education

What specific problem are you trying to solve?

With the pandemic and double-track system in Ghana for most High schools, Most students tend to be out of school and idle. The educational gap is worrisome and schools tend not to have appropriate avenues to engage students and coerce them to learn skills and information which will add value to themselves.

Practical education is void in Ghana and aims to fix it. We hope to redefine education in Africa to not just be imbibition of scholarly knowledge but application to solve global problems.

Heurilearn is tailored for anyone with passion to gain an education prior to solving problems. Educators get to gain substantial income from knowledge they impart via their videos. Our philosophy is to live and learn with no classroom thus HeuriLearn provide a simulation of a classroom but this time no confines and time boundaries.

FlendyAds is platform that enables businesses to reach people digitally(on the internet). It also creates avenues for bloggers, content creators, social media influencers and anybody to make money by just sharing Ads.

Even for businesses with no websites, they earn an online portfolio and can easily upload pictures and videos of their goods and services. They acquire an online store for free. We make provision for startups to gain more publicity. We even advertise job vacancies at various businesses and institutions.

Our vision is to create a medium where African Entrepreneurs, businesses and start-ups would be promoted and empowered. We hope to promote Entrepreneurship and Digital Inclusion in Africa especially, via FlendyAds

Who does your solution serve? In what ways will the solution impact their lives?

I am a recent high school Graduate (completed 2020).I know first hand how the pandemic affected and disrupted Education. Also in Ghana, there is a double-track system for high school education where nearly half the population of high school students stay home for other half be in school and rotated consecutively.

I conceived the idea of HeuriLearn (Formerly called TeachMe) in 2019 to curb this situation. My concern is the number of students left idle and inequality in access of education. I also had problems with the content and nature of education in Ghana.

I resolved to create a platform where students and non-students could have access to valuable information and skills with just a click away. I wanted to redefine Education in Africa to orient it towards training the human resources to be problem-solvers , Innovators and Entrepreneurs.

HeuriLearn is also HeuriLearn Learning Management System to improve technology in schools and make them 21st Century Digital schools. We currently piloting some schools and receiving great reviews.

FlendyAds seeks to be a digital marketplace. The App serves anybody, from C.E.O of fully-fledged companies to the local market woman selling foodstuffs.

Entrepreneurship and Digital inclusion are the core problems we aim curbing thus creation of FlendyAds. When registering for an account we enquire the purpose for the FlendyAds account just so we can ensure everyone is a participant and a beneficiary of this digital economy. Our current options are below and looking forward to add even more options

What steps have you taken to understand the needs of the population you want to serve?

TechHero Ghana is oriented to social impact. Though our coffers are minimal our projects seek to ensure impact.

One of our objectives is to break the monopoly powers of foreign-based companies whose services are not germane to the economy of Africa.Our charges are super minimal in line with the economic nature of our terrain.

Our concern is to ensure potential users benefits financially and positively from our projects.

Heurilearn(formely TeachMe) provide one-month free trial to ensure functionality and streamlining of the Learning management system.

Heurilearn as an App is similar to youtube but with more massive digital tools to ensure heuristic learning and economic gains by content creators. Unlike Youtube , your class can be tested and automatically graded to ensure effective teaching and learning.

For Heurilearn,We plan to build a portal which will enable students apply to several African Universities with a single submission. The portal will provide room for students to express their life beyond the classroom, talents, civic engagement and values. We noticed most Universities base admissions solely on academics(WASSCE) which does not promote civic engagement by the youth. Education is worth more than producing scholars and making efforts to establish that paradigm in Africa.

FlendyAds yearns to empower entrepreneurs and promote digital inclusion. We currently embarked on project dubbed The100 Project which we visited malls , markets and business centres to decipher needs of 100 business owners and provide tech-based solutions to scale up their business at a reduced fee and free for some services.

Which aspects of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Improving financial and economic opportunities for all (Economic Prosperity)

Our solution's stage of development:

Growth: An organization with an established product, service, or business model rolled out in at least one community, which is poised for further growth

Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution—in other words, what have you accomplished to date?

Techhero already have churned out several projects with massive social impact. We keep working on raising the numbers and gaining traction.

FlendyAds currently have nearly 30 business listed. We have appreciable number of advertisers and impressions(digital reach) .

The mission is to be a global marketplace or at worst pan-African digital Marketplace

HEURILEARN is currently in its introduction stage. People and content creators keep increasing in numbers.

HEURILEARN LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM is currently piloting several schools and practically assessing the convenience of the platform. We keep tweaking and including more features.

We currently capitalizing on western region and keep sending our proposal to schools to experience HEURILEARN for FREE.

6. The 100 Project Empowering 100 entrepreneurs by providing them tech-based solutions to either scale up their business or make them beneficiaries of the Digital Economy. We build websites, database systems, register them on Flendyads, provide effective advertisement and attention to their business or ideas.

Daily Bible and Quotes App https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.techheroghana.bible

SMS Notify Ghana https://smsnotifygh.com/

GOME Online is a platform that serves as a medium for African developers to upload their games for the public. It includes games personally built by TechHero Ghana such as The Zombie Isle Game .

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.obiristudios.zombieisle2

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Anaji, Ghana

Team Lead:

Godwin Kanyo (Project Manager)

More About Your Solution

If your solution has a website or an app, provide the link(s) here:

https://heurilearn.com/51-38-42-39-Demo/

If you have additional video content that explains your solution, provide a YouTube or Vimeo link here:

https://flendyads.com/51-38-42-39-Demo/

Which of the following categories best describes your solution?

A new project or business that relies on technology to be successful

Describe the core technology that powers your solution.

FlendyAds came to existence via Coding and programming.

My knack of coding which I learnt informally and by self-tuition enabled us to launch FlendyAds,HeuriLearn

I used Javascript, PHP , HTML ,CSS jQuery , bootstrap and sweetAlert to enable FlendyAds have all features and functions mentioned.

Ultimately is our expertise in coding and software development that enabled us to churn out several Apps, Games and projects.

Please select the technologies currently used in your solution:

Ancestral Technology & Practices
Software and Mobile Applications

In which countries do you currently operate?

Ghana

How many people does your solution currently serve, and how many do you plan to serve in the next year? If you haven’t yet launched your solution, tell us how many people you plan to serve in the next year.

FlendyAds have nearly 30 business listed. We advertise and have over 4000+ impressions from diverse sources.

We keep promoting the FlendyAds to reach more people.

We are targeting to reach 200+ Businesses by the end of 2021. We hope to be selected as an MIT Solve finalist , as our affiliation would escalate the numbers to at least thousands.

HEURILEARN have nearly 20 Institutions deploying our platform. We keep writing proposals and organizing demonstrations to Institutions to sign up to our platform. We contact relevant content creators to try out HEURILEARN.

We keep promoting HEURILEARN to reach more people.

We are targeting to reach 100+ schools and institutions by the end of 2021. We hope to be selected as an MIT Solve finalist , as our affiliation would escalate the numbers to at least thousands.

We have sent emails and proposal to companies. Some received positive feedback others negative and some no response at all.

What are your impact goals for the next year, and how will you achieve them?

FlendyAds have already created the digital platform to accomodate millions and scale up several businesses. The next phase is to get the numbers included in the digital economy.

We already have plans which I believe would convince or better still compel millions and everyone to join the digital Economy.

FlendyAds ought to be a household name and ubiquitous. We plan to use digital and all available communication avenues to intensify the need to register an account at FlendyAds.

We hope to travel to different countries(especially in Africa) , raid the local markets to convince and compel them to have an account. In fact we have intentions to immediately signed them up after their consent.

The only way there would be digital inclusion is to confront and coax them. We hope with enough resources , buy smartphones for businesses in need ,just so they can have an account on FlendyAds and be digitally included.

HEURILEARN have already created the platform to accomodate millions and serve an education for immediate impact and benefits. The next phase is to get the numbers included and deploying our platform.

How are you measuring your progress or planning to measure your progress toward your impact goals?

Number of Registered Users; with the help of Google analytics , we regularly check the number of active users and passive users. We check our impressions.

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Demand and Review For FlendyAds : The number of recommendations and and feedback is also a pivotal criteria for checking FlendyAds impact. We hope to increase the number to the hundreds this year (one of our objectives).

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Popularity Of FlendyAds ; For FlendyAds to effectively promote and scale up businesses it has to be ubiquitous and well known. Publicity of the platform is one we really check, we write proposals and use affordable advertising means to make known FlendyAds. This is why we monthly publish top earners to entice more engagement of the public. FlendyAds is rewarding and make efforts for people to notice that

https://flendyads.com/top-adve...

Convenience of Platform ; much emphasis on given how easy people could use FlendyAds. We get a lot of people affirming it easy to register and use FlendyAds. We keep improving features of FlendyAds to serve everyone and enhance digital inclusion

What barriers currently exist for you to accomplish your goals in the next year?

Finances have been our greatest mitigation. Most of our plans are theories due to finances.

Nevertheless, we build projects that have social impacts.

We have projects such as Flendyads, GOME Online, Heurilearn, Zombie Isle 2, and more.

Due to our young age, some clients also tend to have trust issues. We hope with the validation of MIT Solve we would be open to more clients and opportunities

About Your Team

Your Business Model & Resources

Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for The HP Girls Save the World Prize? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.

No

Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for The Pozen Social Innovation Prize? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.

Yes

If you selected Yes, explain how you are qualified for this prize. How will your team use The Pozen Social Innovation Prize to advance your solution?

I am a recent high school Graduate (completed 2020).I know first hand how the pandemic affected and disrupted Education. Also in Ghana, there is a double-track system for high school education where nearly half the population of high school students stay home for other half be in school and rotated consecutively.

I resolved to create a platform where students and non-students could have access to valuable information and skills with just a click away. I wanted to redefine Education in Africa to orient it towards training the human resources to be problem-solvers, Innovators and Entrepreneurs.

I am from an educational system devoid of practicality thus my mission to ensure proper training of human resource. With the Pozen Innovation Prize ,We can improve features of HEURILEARN, organize workshops , Innovation challenges and embark more initiatives to improve heuristic education. Heurilearn also serve as a learning Management system and have toured various high schools and institutions in our terrain to turn their schools to 21st Century Digital Schools.

I have already created a platform which will curb inequality in access to education and yearn to gain enough funds to provide both online and physical resources to enable utilization of Education to tangible solutions and benefits. Career counselling and perception of Education as prior knowledge to empower human resources be problem-solvers, Innovators and Entrepreneurs is paramount in our solution and hope to scale-up our efforts with the help of the Pozen Social Innovation Prize.

My utmost impact I yearn for is to enable anyone ,everywhere readily have access to Education and actualize the world being their classroom. Where the content would not be just for scholarly use but be prior Education for solving problems.

Similarly , with my team I developed Flendyads to promote social entrepreneurship, Digital inclusion and ensure digital communal efforts in scaling upbusiness and ensuring mutual benefits.

FlendyAds utmost purpose is to scale up businesses and start-ups and ensure digital communal efforts and mutual benefits in the process.

FlendyAds grants business and start-ups massive exposure via any possible digital outlets such as third party websites , Apps, social media and videos. Businesses attain an eternal digital presence and attention.

To ensure everyone participate in this digital economy, advertisers/publishers earn money for their efforts ,to encourage everyone to be included digitally and help promote start-ups and businesses.

Businesses can also earn online store and portfolio at no cost even if they have no websites or digital media.

I have built several games and a platform that works like ''playstore'' for African Game developers called GOME Online. We also working on developing an omni-digital application portal for African Universities. Most African Universities only admits student based on academics (WASSCE) which does not promote community engagement and nation building by the youth but focus on just scholarly knowledge which is the cause of massive unemployment rates. When Universities show concern for impact by the youth , it will create aggregate nation-building.