A Nigerian ed-tech startup, dot Learn, has emerged first runner up at the just concluded Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, winning a prize money of US$75,000.
The challenge, in which fifteen finalist emerged, tasked students and recent graduates with presenting technological solutions or services that could help benefit the economy, society and environment.
Among the fifteen finalists selected, which included two other Nigerian startups; Pass.ng and Solstice, dot Learn was the best performing African startup, being the first runner-up.
dot Learn helps provide a video-based e-learning platform, using a technology that creates low-bandwidth educational videos which is accessible to people with cheaper phones that can only connect to the internet via 2G, thereby making online learning affordable and reliable to people who are in need of it most.
The startup was co-founded by Sam Bhattacharyya and Tunde Alawode. Both of whom met for the first time at Development Ventures class at the MIT Media Lab, back in 2015
Project Vive's Voz Box, which was crowned overall winner at the event, securing the grand prize of US$100,000, is an affordable, wearable device for people with cerebral palsy and ALS who cannot speak.
The second runner-up, taking home the cash prize of US$25,000, was PathVis. PathVis is a smartphone-based disease detection platform which can measure, quantitatively, the level of pathogens in environmental and patient samples with real time location data.
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