Kabakoo Academies, pioneering education 4.0 across Africa
With a proven impact and valuable projects of local relevance, Kabakoo is
now working towards scalability and replication across Africa
PARIS, France, July 23, 2020/ -- Created to empower young Africans with vocational training for the fourth Industrial Revolution, Kabakoo Academies (www.Kabakoo.Africa) managed in less than 2 years to establish itself as one of the most innovative
learning places in the world, racking up recognitions from the African
Union to the World Economic Forum. With a proven impact and valuable
projects of local relevance, Kabakoo is now working towards scalability
and replication across Africa.
In January 2020, Kabakoo Academies was the youngest of the 16
educational institutions worldwide selected by the World Economic Forum
as “School of the Future”. Labeled as a global pioneer for education 4.0 and new models of education for the Fourth industrial revolution. We
have also been endorsed as one of the most innovative educational
projects of the African continent by the African Union and UNESCO.
But what makes us so special ?
An innovative model to answer a crucial problem
Kabakoo is a new breed of learning place, supercharging tech
education in Africa. Part school, maker-space and co-working hub, we are a mission-driven enterprise building a pan-African network of creative
academies for sustainable futures.
Our model aims to answer a crucial problem. According to the
African Development Bank, every single year more than 8 million young
Africans cannot find a way into the local job markets. This problem
remains unsolved for two reasons: the lack of competencies despite
schooling (the in-school-but-not-learning problem) and a very limited
reach of high-quality schools due to prohibitively high fees.
Our founder and CEO, Yanick Kemayou experienced this problem
first-hand as a young African. Like many of his peers, he was forced to
leave his home country. While he has been fortunate enough to study at
prestigious institutions in China and Europe, the initial problem which
pushed him into migration kept bugling him.
That is why Yanick committed to solving the problem at its source, building a new type of school: “Kabakoo is the culmination of what I believe in. My passion is education, how
to improve people’s life through education and training. I was deeply
influenced by my own emigration experience, and the tragedies of other
who have less luck than me while trying to leave Africa”.
A proven impact of local relevance
From this perspective, Kabakoo was born in 2018, through a
pilot-campus in Bamako, Mali. We ground our methodology on experiential
learning, blending high-tech and local knowledge to allow the learners
to acquire actionable technological competencies in their environments.
For example, our learners designed and implemented the first citizen
platform to measure and fight air pollution in West Africa, which earned us the position of non-state actor in the global Coalition on Climate
and Clean Air of the UN Environment Program.
More recently, our learners have been at the forefront of the
local response against the Covid-19 pandemic in the Sahel region. Some
Kabakoo learners have set up a decentralized supply chain which already
produced more than 60 000 masks while others have been 3D-printing face
shields for health professionals. These and other projects led to a
partnership with the EU and the Malian Government which contracted
Kabakoo in May 2020 to train a cohort dedicated to innovative local
solutions against the pandemic.
Our multi-stakeholder approach, demonstrated effectiveness and
highly scalable model make the success of our enterprise. Since 2018, we have trained more than 530 learners in tech skills who have solved a
range of real-life problems while generating economic value. Our
market-proven business model has also earned us a 6-figure revenue so
far for 2020, which makes us self-sustainable and durable.
About Kabakoo:
Kabakoo Academies (www.Kabakoo.Africa) is a mission-driven enterprise building a pan-African network of
creative academies for sustainability-focused tech education. We
catalyze the emergence of sustainable and inclusive innovation by
merging high-tech and low-tech (local knowledge). Our mission is to
accelerate the world’s transition toward desirable and sustainable
futures by providing locally relevant and transformative learning
experiences.
Link: Kabakoo Academies
Kabakoo Academies, pioneering education 4.0 across Africa
Kabakoo Academies, pioneering education 4.0 across Africa
Kabakoo Academies, pioneering education 4.0 across Africa
Kabakoo Academies, pioneering education 4.0 across Africa
Kabakoo Academies, pioneering education 4.0 across Africa
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