Reinventing digital education for children

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The project of the fundraising campaign "Reinventing the education of children by digital" was born from the meeting between Fab Lab Baby Lab represented by Obin Guiako, African talent and Pauline Boutroy from MADELEO, a wise networker. We are a multiple, complementary and international team. Obin and Pauline are two entrepreneurs engaged respectively in Côte d'Ivoire and France.

Pauline BOUTROY linkedin : linkedin.com/in/paulineboutroy

Guiako OBIN linkedin : linkedin.com/in/guiako-obin

What are the references of the Baby Lab?

The Baby Lab is the first Fab Lab (Laboratory of Manufacture) in Ivory Coast registered in the world directory of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and founded by a dozen computer friends for the most part. Our philosophy at Baby Lab is to promote a development model based on a simple principle: "digital education for all". In this way, we aspire through digital to reduce disparities between populations, starting from the deprived neighborhoods and underprivileged areas of Africa, our land of anchoring, which we want to transform into genuine poles of technological innovation.

The Baby Lab has been labeled "Territories of Tomorrow" since April 2015 by the foundation of Territories of Tomorrow.

The Baby Lab is also one of the research projects of the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) community of African scientists and researchers, an initiative of the African Institute of Science and Mathematics based in South Africa, Scientific and technological innovation on a global scale.

Finally, the Baby Lab was chosen for the 1st Prix Jeunesse Francophonie 35 <35 in the category "Support for Entrepreneurship", thus appearing among the innovation projects that move the Francophone space.

The Kid Lab, for its part, has already seduced more than one of them, in particular the French NGO Libraries Without Borders, which aspires to reinvent the concept of "library" in Francophone African countries while stimulating innovation. Sensitized by the potential of the Kid Lab, the NGO has provided us with a 15-month framework within the framework of the BSF Campus program, whose fruits are numerous.

What about Madeleo?

Madeleo, a Franco-Ivorian company, has set itself the mission of enhancing the talents of African talent and their innovation. Madeleine was born in Paris and wishes to settle in all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa to make accessible training for all.

Madeleo is an edutech startup now incubated at Paris Pionnière. We are hacking education by making inclusive employment. The fight of Madeleo is to demonstrate the value of the African entrepreneur, intuitive native entrepreneur and solution.

Madeleo is a social enterprise that draws on the skills of experts and an international network that offer the following activities:

• Start-up action: Offer dedicated to companies wishing to create or develop. We accompany them on the development of this specific part of the setting up of their company in Africa or in France.
  • Training
  • Accompaniment
  • Legal structuring
  • Framing
  • Business plan
  • Management
• Mobile action: This component is aimed at rurality. The objective is to be able to provide training in technologies in the rural areas, areas often distant from this economy for lack of means or dedicated spaces. The mission is to sensitize and to touch these technologies by the manipulation of workshops.
  • Training code
  • Robotics Training
  • Electronic Training
  • 3D Printing Training
• Company: Our BtoB offer proposes support on the internal skills building component internally as well as providing profiles adapted to their business needs. In addition, we provide them with a CSR tool.
  • Business University
  • Business Profile
  • Corporate social responsibility
• Advice: We offer advice and support to the implementation of communication around the event.
  • Seminar organization
  • Event organization
  • Networking
  • Mentoring
  • Event Organization Madeleo

• Products: On the part of the skills, we propose the following products:
  • To create a Web site
  • Community Manager
  • Creation of Content / Content of the blog
  • Web development

Who are the funds for?

==> To the association Baby Lab in Abobo and Madeleo Abidjan

How will the funds be used?

==> See financing table + long-term objectives if funds are exceeded

What is the type of organization that receives donations?

=> An association and a private company

What is the distribution between Madeleo and Baby Lab?

==> 70% for Baby Lab and 30% for Madeleo

What are the distinctions received?

• WAOUW (Woman All Over The World) Contest by Ubiznews
• Ambassador of the program at Next Einstein Forum of the African Institute of Sciences and Mathematics of South Africa
• Young leader of the BSF program Campus of Bibliothèque Sans Frontières
• Laureates of the 35 young innovators who move the Francophone space of 900 million inhabitants on the 5 continents