Challenge App Africa 2021: who are the ten finalists?

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The jury of the 6th edition of the Challenge App Afrique has delivered its verdict.

The ten selected candidates come from Cameroon, Mauritania and Rwanda.

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Started on October 8, the sixth edition of the Africa App Challenge unveils its first ten winners.

The idea this year was to imagine the digital service that will contribute to the education of children.

Just under 1,000 projects were received and ten were selected to continue the adventure. 

The finalists are invited to refine their projects in order to hope to be the grand prize-winner of an endowment of 15,000 euros.

The selected projects are as follows

Owona Marylène

(Cameroon): Our goal is to create a generation of young Africans who have alternative learning related to the needs of their environment and in their local languages.

Saba Fatimata

(Burkina Faso): Educt-us is an educational platform for children.

One of its features is the online TV channel which offers learning programs for children aged 07-12 in comics. 

Cho Nkarimbi Valérie

(Cameroon): Miya Academy is an intelligent and objective electronic educational assistant that works even without an internet connection.

Segnon Michel

(Benin): Our project is a set of educational applications that allows students in secondary school to learn mathematics and physics intelligently while giving them the impression of playing.

Hien-Kouame Christelle

(Côte d'Ivoire): Access to the curriculum in the format of lesson summaries by chapter and by subject, followed by a series of multiple-choice questions to assess the learner's understanding.

Niyizibyose Confident

(Rwanda): Augmented Future enables independent and fun learning for primary school students on the other side, solving the problem of parents who do not have access to additional learning materials to support their children.

Djigui Derick

(Benin): MySchool Life is an integrated parental monitoring and school management platform that brings parents, teachers and primary, secondary and other school administrations together like never before.

Sidi Camara

(Mauritania): Khrankompé's objective is to produce all primary school lessons explained in the local language and accessible offline on smartphones and USB media while maintaining the language of writing used for teaching.

Kitio Arielle

(Cameroon): abcCode is a playful and intuitive educational and environmental coding program that develops creativity and introduces all children from an early age to creative programming.

Kone Raki

(Mali): The application provides children with video lessons in two languages ​​(French and Bambara) produced by the best teachers and professors in the country whom we have taken care to select.

The application is a first in Mali.

The jury for this first selection is made up of Emmanuelle Bastide, journalist at RFI, presenter of the program 7 billion neighbors;

Guillaume Grallet, tech columnist on France 24;

Carole ROKOTONDRAINIBE, director of Next A, incubator of the Axian network;

Aphrodice Mutangana, Chief Operating Officer of Digital Afriva;

Pierrick Chabi, founder of Wakatoon, a start-up that develops technologies with the aim of moderating children's exposure time to screens;

Filip Kabeya and Idriss Mangaya, managers of the Lumumba Lab in the Democratic Republic of Congo;

Ninon Duval, general manager of the Bond'innov incubator;

Mohamadou Diallo, founder of Cio Mag;

Raissa Malu, Ambassador of the Next Einstein Forum;

Hannah Leling Banla, Togo Coordinator on the WIDU-Africa funding program; 

, director of Kanieba Interactive, creator of Africatik;

program manager at DoniLab in Mali;

Adam Yamoussa, support officer at La Fabrique in Burkina Faso;

Samir Abdelkrim, the founder of EMERGING Valley and Djeneba Gory, co-founder of Suadela, a non-profit organization that trains young women and adolescent girls in negotiation skills to defend their interests in education and health.

Launched by RFI and France 24 and its partners Axian, Orange, Digital Africa, Emerging Valley and AIMS, the sixth edition of the Africa App Challenge aims to reward digital innovations that improve the education of children in Africa.

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