New tech platform, AkadaPlay has launched an app to foster scholarships, funding, rewards and mentorship to talented Nigerian school children. This innovation collates data from several primary and secondary schools across the country while sharing the data with organizations to help them identify high-performing students and offer rewards.
In September 2024, the United Nations released its guidelines for organizations to not just contribute to the global sustainable development goals but ensure the SDGs remain the core of their business operations. AkadaPlay plans to directly help organizations accelerate their mandates especially regarding SDG: quality education and allocate their resources more effectively.
The platform’s objective is to provide educational institutions with the support they need to cater to their talented children while providing brands with targeted SDG and Corporate Social Responsibility programs to help them stand out.
Over 1000 schools are projected to collaborate with AkadaPlay by September 2025 since it began its outreach program, reassuring different educational institutions of safe and seamless data collection for accurate real time insights distributed to various brands and organizations. Top features of the platform include: insights into top performing students, impact tracking, reward matching to organizations and data analysis.
According to AkadaPlay Founder; Babatunde Adenaike, the firm is committed to delivering 10,000 academic rewards for the 2024/25 academic year, underscoring their dedication to educational empowerment. He added that, “By empowering Nigeria’s next generation through data-driven academic rewards, AkadaPlay promotes educational inclusivity and recognizes excellence enabling organizations to make a meaningful social impact through strategic, targeted support.”
Speaking to the press about the launch, AkadaPlay Chief Marketing Officer; Flora Ogunlusi stated that, “AkadaPlay was founded with a unique vision of creating a system that recognizes and rewards the hard work of students from diverse backgrounds. By partnering with corporations and schools, we aim to bridge educational inequities and ensure that deserving students receive recognition, regardless of socioeconomic status.”
She explained that, “We believe in investing our time and resources in building the future of Nigeria, our children and what better way to do that than by educating generations to come and ensuring their access to the best opportunities based solely on their academic excellence.”
The AkadaPlay platform will serve as a go-between for brands and schools. It has been assessed by the government and is Nigerian Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) compliant.
To join AkadaPlay, schools can send an email to schoolsupport@akadaplay.ng to register while organizations can access the platform for sponsorship opportunities at sponsorships@akadaplay.ng
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