Description/achievement of initiative
How do we lower the barriers to education geographically, politically and socially, to make quality education a reality for everyone no matter where they live or what their financial situation is?
InovaLearn's primary objective is the provision of digitally conveyed education to all focusing on impoverished families in South African townships. InovaLearn aims to promote, protect and enhance the interests of urban informal settlement communities, rural communities and peri-urban communities in the Republic of South Africa through the provisioning of media, power, free digital education, ICT and other related services.
Implementation methodologies
The implementation of InovaLearn is in partnership with InovaSure, InovaMedia and LivPak. InovaLearn is part of the InovaSure poverty alleviation program aimed at giving the poorest people in South Africa access to affordable infrastructure. The program consists of providing off grid electrification, connectivity and e-Learning for urban townships, rural and indigent residential areas. InovaLearn is unique in that we aim to provide learning content to all registered users in connected homes to which we provide off-grid renewable energy and connectivity. InovaSure have developed the LivPak Living Security Program, which consists of off-grid solar electrification and connectivity for urban townships, rural and indigent residential areas providing dignity, identity and creating local jobs and ownership through the electrification, connectivity and lighting of informal dwellings.
Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer
Coordination mechanisms/governance structure
InovaLearn is partnered with InovaSure, InovaMedia, and LivPak to create a self-sustaining ecosystem that provides access to free digital education for all. Coordination is administered by the prime integrator depending on the solution deployed within the community. This will be coordinated alongside future partners and collaborators for the entire project design in South Africa and Southern Africa. The prime integrator will be the lead of the organisation who’s focus will be to promote and implement the sustainable goals of the United Nations. The contact for the education project will be InovaLearn, the partners will be the promoters, sponsors or third parties for the most targeted geographic locations and roll-out.
Partner(s)
InovaSure, LivPak, InovaMedia
Progress reports
Goal 1
1.4 - By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
Goal 3
3.7 - By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes
Goal 4
4.1 - By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes
4.2 - By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education
4.3 - By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university
4.4 - By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
4.5 - By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations
4.6 - By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy
4.7 - By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development
Goal 5
5.b - Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
Goal 8
8.3 - Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services
8.10 - Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all
Goal 9
9.1 - Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all
9.c - Significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries by 2020
Goal 17
17.8 - Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology
17.9 - Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the sustainable development goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation