Essays in Africa’s EdTech Breakthrough Series
It always seems impossible until it’s done — Nelson Mandela
As described in Essay #1, African EdTech’s Four Barriers — Policy, Technology, Data, and Economics — have kept Africa’s best EdTech out of its learner’s hands. Africa’s EdTech Breakthrough was the decision by three people — Dr. Barbara Glover, John Kimotho, and Jim Plamondon — to design a new EdTech system that would lower all of the Four Barriers at once. Africa’s EdTech Breakthrough System is the result. Africa’s EdTech Breakthrough Project is the effort to build that System. This Essay Series describes Africa’s EdTech Breakthrough System & Project. There are a lot of essays, because a lot must change. However, each essay is short. Each step along our path is small, but together, we can go far. May the Light of Learning — Mwanga wa Elimu — illuminate our path.
Africa’s Education Crisis and Its Context (01–05)
01. African EdTech’s Four Barriers
02. Understanding AUDA-NEPAD’s African EdTech 2030: Vision & Plan
03. Understanding Digital Public Infrastructures (DPIs)
04. Understanding Africa’s DPI Experience
05. Understanding AUDA-NEPAD’s EdTech Policy Framework
The Breakthrough and Its Economic Sustainability (06–09)
06. Africa’s EdTech Breakthrough
07. Making Education Outcomes Finance-Grade
08. Understanding RESPECT’s Economic Model
09. Understanding Sponsor Credits (SpoDits)
Technology, Stakeholders, and Scale (10–13)
13. When Will RESPECT Reach Global Scale?
Governance and Trust (14–15)
14. Understanding Governance and Sovereignty
15. Legitimacy, Trust, and Safety (LeTS)
Institutions and Human Capital (16–19)
16. Building the DPI Engineer Pipeline
18. AUDA-NEPAD’s EdTech Task Force
19. Human Capital in Africa’s EdTech Breakthrough
Planet-Projects (20–23)
22. Easy Curriculum Mapping (ECM)
23. Mappers: Mapping Lessons to Curriculum Standards (Years 1–4)
Funding the Breakthrough (24–27)
26. Sun and Planets: The Architecture of Africa’s EdTech Breakthrough Project
Partnerships and Conclusion (28–29)
28. XPRIZE & the Breakthrough Project
29. Summary: RESPECT Essay Series
All Executive Summaries — a single document containing the executive summary of every essay, useful for loading the gist of the entire Project into an LLM’s context.
