{"id":43140,"date":"2021-03-23T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-s-digital-solution-among-50-outstanding-education-projects-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2021-03-25T12:18:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T12:18:41","slug":"rwanda-s-digital-solution-among-50-outstanding-education-projects-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-s-digital-solution-among-50-outstanding-education-projects-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda\u2019s digital solution among 50 outstanding education projects in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shule ERP is a program developed by Loxotech, a company providing digital solutions in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>The program is used by nursery schools, primary and secondary schools and universities to enhance teaching, streamline finance management and follow up students\u2019 discipline.    <\/p>\n<p>It also helps parents to follow up students\u2019 performance while at school, helps students to revise studies made available on the portal or attend online classes using the portal anytime.  <\/p>\n<p>Among others, the technology helps in finance management, facilitating easy monitoring of students who have already paid fees. Students can pay using Mastercard or Visa Card without necessity to queue at banks.  <\/p>\n<p>Through its annual initiative dubbed \u2018Innovating Education in Africa Expo\u2019 aimed at recognizing outstanding projects promoting innovation in the education sector.  <\/p>\n<p>Through its program dubbed \u2018Innovating Education in Africa Expo\u2019 aimed at recognizing outstanding projects promoting innovation in the education sector, AU selected Shule ERP among 50 best digital solutions.  <\/p>\n<p>The Innovating Education in Africa Expo was launched in 2018. This year\u2019s edition focused on innovators below the age of 35.  <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to IGIHE, the CEO of Loxotech, Olivier Nshizirungu said they were selected among 50 best digital solutions in Africa out of 300 contestants.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe entered the contest in August 2020 that attracted the participation of 300 digital solutions providers from different African countries.  Lucky enough, we emerged among 50 outstanding projects,\u201d she said.  <\/p>\n<p>Nshizirungu explained that the idea behind the portal was to provide affordable digital solution facilitating education.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe decided to develop the digital solution to address challenges of existing costly solutions restricting users in one way or another,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>The developed program also helps students to attend examinations without necessarily being present physically.  <\/p>\n<p>The program developed by Rwandans has so far been rolled out to other African countries including Guinea, Ethiopia, and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).   <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38135 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/amwe_mu_mashuri_yo_muri_guine_yatangiye_gukoresha_iri_koranabuhanga.jpg\" alt=\"Some of schools from Guinea have started using the technology.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The African Union (AU) has recently recognized a digital solution developed in Rwanda known as \u2018Shule ERP\u2019 among 50 outstanding education innovations in Africa. } <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-43140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43140"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43140"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}