Islamabad, Oct 30: Edtech Knowledge Platform Joins Eneza to Boost Global Education Access.
Knowledge Platform, the leading edtech business in Pakistan, and Eneza Education, the leading edtech company in Kenya, merged to become the first African Asian edtech venture in history.
With its headquarters located in Singapore, the combined company, known as Knowledge Platform, uses SMS, online, and mobile technologies to reach more than 1,000,000 students throughout Asia and Africa.
Over 3 billion young people live in emerging markets.
For a prosperous, equitable, peaceful and green future, there is no greater imperative than to invest in the education of these young people.
Our merger unleashes tremendous energy. Eneza brings deep experience in serving the rapidly growing African market through B2C solutions, and Knowledge Platform brings depth in B2B and B2B2C solutions.
“Eneza is Africa’s ace at building a large, sustained, and monetized customer base at a very low cost, and I believe we are the emerging markets leader in gamified learning,” continues Mahboob Mahmood, creator of Knowledge Platform.
We help young people master academic subjects like math, science, and English as well as, more importantly, 21st-century skills like digital, climate and financial literacy, problem-solving, and data science through learning games, competitions, and adaptive learning systems.
Knowledge Platform and Eneza were introduced by the telecom’s association GSMA, which had provided innovation support to both ventures. Reacting to the merger, Max Cuvellier Giacomelli, Head of GSMA Mobile for Development, stated: “We are thrilled about this collaboration.
In addition to UNICEF and government organizations in Kenya, Pakistan, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the combined organizations count the following partners and clients: AFS Intercultural Programs, AKUEB, Aga Khan Education Services, Beaconhouse, The Citizens Foundation, GSMA, Jacobs Foundation, Jazz, LUMS, Marshall Cavendish, McDonald’s, Moonlight Publishers, Oxford University Press, Safaricom, and Zong.
