New Cohort of Five Projects to Join the WISE Accelerator

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DOHA, Qatar, Oct. 6 / PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

    - The WISE Accelerator supports technology-driven projects addressing

education challenges

    The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), a leading international

initiative driving innovation and collaboration in education, has revealed the

names of the five projects that will join the 2015-2016 WISE Accelerator

Program.

    Launched in 2014, the Accelerator is designed to support the development of

young, innovative projects with high potential for scalability and positive

impact in the field of education. Selected projects benefit from a yearlong

mentorship program tailored to address their specific needs. The WISE

Accelerator also serves as an intermediary to connect these projects with an

international network that creates opportunities to share knowledge and find

support from donors and investors.

    Since its inauguration, the WISE Accelerator program has been dedicated to

support education projects from different regions and sectors that are using or

designing technology to address education challenges.

    The 2015-2016 cohort of five new projects will officially join the WISE

Accelerator at the WISE Summit November 3-5, 2015 in Doha, where they will be

invited to take part in specific workshops and be offered unique networking

opportunities.

    The selected projects for the 2015-2016 WISE Accelerator program are:

    - eduTechnoz (Canada/MENA): a portal providing educational content such as

online games, eBooks and Interactive worksheets enabling users to teach and

learn Arabic in a fun and effective manner. https://www.edutechnoz.com

    - MGCubed (Ghana): a project aiming at improving the overall education

standards of girls and addressing the challenges of teacher quality, teacher

absenteeism and poor student learning by using cutting edge technology allowing

real-time two-way interactive distance learning in deprived schools in Ghana.

https://www.varkeyfoundation.org/content/making-ghanaian-girls-great

    - Kepler (Rwanda): a new kind of university giving access to an ultra

low-cost US accredited degree by combining free world-class online courses with

in-person seminars, coaching and intensive education-to-employment support.

http://kepler.org/#home

    - Maths Curriculum Online (South Africa): a cloud-based online platform

implementing the Maths Curriculum for grades 1-9, offering maths exercises,

instant feedback on answers to the learners, tracking their individual progress

throughout the year and enabling teachers to make data-informed decisions.

http://www.greenshootsedu.co.za

    - TeachPitch (UK): a cloud-based learning platform that helps teachers and

schools, constantly constrained for time, identify, save and rate the best

online resources available, as well as share learning resources worldwide.

https://www.teachpitch.com

SOURCE: World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE)