Imagine Worldwide Tablet-Based Foundational Learning Programme from Imagine Worldwide in Africa has won the inaugural Global EdTech Prize in the Non-Profits category.
Founded this year by T4 Education, with the support of Owl Ventures, the Global EdTech Prize recognises those trailblazing solutions that are driving change and grappling with the most crucial challenges in today’s classrooms.
Brisk from Brisk Teaching in the US won the Global EdTech Prize in the Start-Ups category. And Matific Maths Game from Matific in Australia won the Global EdTech Prize in the Majors category.
Global Community of Practice from Team4Tech Foundation, which operates in many African countries, made the Final 3 for the Global EdTech Prize in the Non-Profits category.
The Global EdTech Prize is awarded annually in three categories: Non-Profits, Start-Ups, and Majors.
The Top 10 finalists for each of the three categories were invited to the World Schools Summit – hosted by T4 Education, Aldar Education and the Emirates Foundation and supported by CIFF, Google, Microsoft and HP – where they showcased their work before an Expert Panel comprising leading figures in the technology and education sectors including investors and policymakers from around the world.
The Expert Panel then narrowed down the final three per category who went on to present their products and tools before educators at the World Schools Summit. Educators voted by secret ballot to determine the winner of each category, with the winners announced live on stage at the culmination of the summit.
Vikas Pota, founder of T4 Education and the Global EdTech Prize, says: “Congratulations to Imagine Worldwide Tablet-Based Foundational Learning Programme from Imagine Worldwide in Africa on winning the inaugural Global EdTech Prize and to Global Community of Practice from Team4Tech Foundation for making the Final 3. Your work is a crucial contribution to the cause of improving education, and everything that can achieve for all of humanity.
“We established the Global EdTech Prize to help scale the innovations that are making a real difference to the most intractable educational challenges, from enhancing literacy development to building lifelong skills, supporting social mobility, and closing learning gaps. And we ensured it is judged by educators themselves, because they know what works best in their classrooms.
“I hope this award will now allow you to spread your impact across the world.”