Sandboxes: My experience participating in the sandbox alpha

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This blog post is a cross-post from EdTech Hub‘s blog https://edtechhub.org/2020/01/31/sandboxes-my-experience-participating-in-the-sandbox-alpha/ (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0). The blog post was written by Pilirani Kumasewera and Padziwe on the 31st of January 2020.

This is the third in this series about our sandboxes. If you haven’t already, read about our approach to experimentation and how we tested our sandbox strategy out in Malawi.

One of my happiest moments in 2019 was when I received an email with notification that Padziwe, an EdTech startup which I founded, has been selected by the EdTech Hub to test one of our applications in a sandbox. We felt exceptionally lucky considering that out of all the 195 countries in the world the Hub chose Malawi and, more specifically, Padziwe. This sandbox focused on Teachers Desk, an application which Padziwe developed to offer continuous professional development (CPD) for teachers. 

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Sandboxes: Testing the strategy in Malawi

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This blog post is a cross-post from EdTech Hub‘s blog https://edtechhub.org/2020/01/31/sandboxes-testing-the-strategy-in-malawi/ (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0). The blog post was written by Alice Carter on the 31st of January 2020.

This is the second in this series about our sandboxes. If you haven’t already, read about our approach to experimentation

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Tablets in Malawi and Ivory Coast

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This post originally appeared here on 20th October 2014 under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

There were a couple of stories on the BBC recently, one to do with the onebillion project in Malawi (and in the UK), which also features the research by Nicola Pitchford (University of Nottingham): http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04hfzs4/click-06092014.

The other story was about Qelasy, a tablet initiative in Ivory Coast: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29163842