2023-2024 Winner

Yiya AirScience

Leveraging accessible tech to bring educational content to under-resourced youth in Uganda

Uganda
Track:
Accelerating Learning

Prize Level:

Growth Prize

Project Description

Yiya AirScience sidesteps internet and smartphones and instead leverages technologies that are readily available in rural Uganda—like radio, keypad phones, and USSD—to bring educational content to under-resourced youth in Uganda.

Meet Our Team

Samson Wambuzi

Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer

Nimrod Muhanguzi

Senior Program Manager

Sharifah Naluswata

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Specialist

Michael Arikosi

Product Specialist

Phase I of the 2025 Tools Competition is now closed. Results will be released on Nov. 22.