Essays in Africa's EdTech Breakthrough Series

It always seems impossible until it's done — Nelson Mandela

As described in Essay #1 below, 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, starting with Africa's EdTech 2030: Vision & Plan. 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!

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.

Essays in Africa's EdTech Breakthrough Series

Africa's Education Crisis and Its Context (01–05)

The Breakthrough and Its Economic Sustainability (06–09)

Technology, Stakeholders, and Scale (10–13)

Governance and Trust (14–15)

Institutions and Human Capital (16–19)

Planet-Projects (20–23)

Funding the Breakthrough (24–27)

Partnerships, Value, and Conclusion (28–30)