 Yes, welcome back to YL The One. And I have a very interesting brother in studio with me. It goes by the name Daniel. I've been introducing you to him, eight of you. But remember, we are on social media at White Fair Four, channel on Twitter, White Fair Four, underscore channel on Instagram, and White Fair Four on Facebook. We are living in a very interesting age right here. We have the coronavirus. We have social distancing. We have isolation. We have quarantine. And we have a lot of information floating in the air. And amidst all these things, kids are suffering. Kids are not able to go to school. Kids are not able to get the education that we were lucky to get when we were kids. That's why we have guys from the AIDU app who are finding solutions to this problem. And they have a representative by the name Daniel, an interesting guy. Can I have a second? Thank you. All right, your camera is number four. Just introduce yourself briefly so that people can get to know you. My name is Daniel Korya. A regular guy went to high school, a neurobaptist. Went and did my bachelor's in engineering, aeronautical engineering. And then I made a switch to masters in computer security. Yeah, now I'm back here. Now you're back here solving problems. So there's a beautiful invention called the AIDU. Smart AIDU. All right. Oh, the intonation is different because this is Nairobi. Smart AIDU. All right. So this invention makes it possible for kids to study from home as long as they have connectivity to the internet or they have internet connection. Yes. All right. Before we get into this, this app itself, what actually inspired you to get into solving problems for the kids? So it was problems that I went through myself. So when I was studying, sometimes I would miss lessons. And we had the facility to be able to catch up on those lessons where they would record the lessons and they would upload the notes and the PowerPoint files. They were uploaded onto a portal where you could access them. And I was thinking, what if we do this for our kids back home? We can be able to build a portal for them. And it wouldn't be just restricted to the kids of one school. But it would be open to everybody. And it would be able to complement whatever they are learning in school. That's where the inspiration came from. All right. Yeah. Sorry for that little light hitch right there. All right. So in the process, you came up with this idea. And we have the smart edu app. All right. So in a nutshell, how does this work? So the app has about, we are looking at multiple delivery channels. So we have video. This is a teacher teaching, using visual aids, using audio aids, which is songs for small kids. They have songs that are being sung to their visual aids to teach them what they are learning. It's a bit more interactive than just a teacher on a chalkboard talking through the lesson. All right. So you have different kinds of media. The videos, you can get notes as well. Yeah. You can get the notes as well. And then there is an assessment. They're called formative assessments, which just checks the understanding of the student on what has been taught. And then at the end of that, we are looking to provoke their creativity. We have a smart task. Which is something that they go and do themselves. It's not graded. It's just to help them get a better understanding of what they were learning. All right. So after every topic, you can test yourself. Yeah. All right. Who marks the test after you test yourself? So we are trying to reduce the number of people working on grading. So it's graded automatically. The answers are there as soon as you submit and get your answers instantly. Real time. Real time. You mean if you get your results? You don't have to wait a week to get your results? No. What are the results that go? All right. How do I get to do I need an account as a student? Do I need to log in? Is it open to everyone? How does it work? So to be able to track learner progress, you always need to have an account. Because if you don't have an account, then that means you don't know who are. There are no stats. There are no statistics for you. So you have to register. You have to activate your account. And then you can log in. You enroll on your course. Come on, it's grade four, or it's class eight. Especially we've done a lot of work on class eight. You enroll into that class, and you start learning. All right, so I'm Mr. Barry right here. I have two kids. One is in class three. Not real. This is hypothetical. One is in class three. Another one is in class six. What do I do? Do I open email accounts for them? Or do I use my email account for it? So as long as you can be able to log in, because it keeps the classes separately. So you can have just one email account, and then enroll both of them on that same email account. And then it will have their own classes that are studying, and they're doing it separately. And it keeps statistics for them. And it will come up as Mr. Barry or the name of the teacher. And as a parent, after I register my kids to the app, can I be part of the assessment process? We actually encourage it, because then you can see whether this is working. And you can see what feedback to give us. Because this is a continual process. It's not our one-off where we just build it, and then everybody goes home. This is a continual process where we need to be working with the teachers, with the parents, to be able to make sure that the kids are learning. All right. So when we had the idea of automatic ticketing in the city here, people claimed that there are jobs at risk. Somebody's coming for their jobs. Should teachers be worried about this? No, they should not. Because I tell people, this is not a replacement for schools. You still need schools. You still need that teacher interacting with the kids. But for the current situation, for now, the parent will be the teacher. But it's meant to complement the education system. It's not meant to replace the schools. It's not meant to replace the teachers, because we still need them creating the content, creating the questions, the smart tests, creating the smart mocks, predicting the KCPE. We still need the teachers. All right. So when it comes to, thank you very much for that, by the way, when it comes to matters of creativity and identifying what the child loves, what the child is good at. This has been a problem when it comes to the education system that we currently have and that we are currently using. What is the edge for this app when it comes to creativity and identifying what the kids are good at? So we have a, I don't know, can you? Oh, yes. You can ask for what you want to be projected on skin we'll have it for you. There is a module we have called Creative Intelligence. And it's Creative Intelligence 2050. And this is just us trying to picture and trying to provoke this in kids of what will Kenya, what will the world in general look like when it gets to 2050? Oh, yeah, this is the signing page. This is the signing page. I can use my email address to admit as many kids as I have. Yeah, as many kids as you have, from grade one to class eight, it's all there. You can have access to it. You put your email address, you put your password, and you're in. All right, I love that. I love that the whole world is also in the scope right there. It's all there. It's a brother's thing, so this is the signing page. But back to the 2050 idea. So we're trying to look at what will the world look like when it gets to 2050. Because we have a ballooning population. I think right now we're up to about 47 million people. And population always brings other challenges. So we have the traffic in Nairobi. It's crazy. Except for the current situation right now where you can drive a Corvettableto in Nairobi. The traffic to 5 a.m. and 7 p.m. obviously. We have traffic problems. We have housing crisis. We have all these challenges. So we have to solve these problems. We have to look at what the world will look like when it gets to 2050. Will it be flying cars to avoid traffic? Will we have floating houses? Or what will the houses look like to be able to accommodate the huge population? So we have to be able to provoke this creativity in the kids to be able to think and to start problem solving as well. Because these are challenges, these are problems. And they need to be solved. We can't wait for other people outside to come. All right, I get you. I was once told that before you get into that, my state of actually trying to visualize your future, trying to come up with ideas, innovate for a better future. You need to understand history. Why is it that it is how it is right now? So is it also something that you're incorporating? Looking into the history of... Yes, just before we visualize 2050, we have to know how 1980 was, how 1950 was. Yeah, so we are looking at showing what the current situation is. We're not looking so far back because we have to start from somewhere. If you go too far back, then you're pulling progress backwards. So we are looking at the current situation. So what's the current situation right now? We have computers, that's the digital that we have right now. What will the future digital look like? But we have to show them what is there right now. So the equivalent of maybe flying cars, we have drones that can carry people. So we are looking at building that and showing them how to go about it. So we are going from what's there currently, and then provoking them to think, what will it look like in the future? And what can you make it look like in the future? Yes, exactly. All right, I love that. So this app was launched at a school in Kitangela, Ideal School. Ideal School Kitangela. Yeah. What is the relation between Ideal School in Kitangela and the smart Edwa? So I approached the director of the school and he was very open to the idea. He incorporated the staff and got people working on it. That's where we started off from. All right. So the first step, you needed at least a school setting? Yeah, we needed a school setting because they have the infrastructure. Like I told you, this is meant to be a compliment to the schools. We are now creating, as a problem solver, I'm not creating the material. I'm using the material that is already there that is in the schools and now putting it from the format that they have it in the classes into a digital format. All right. So you have teachers at the back end of this app, this website. Yes. All right. So teachers are not being obfuscated anytime soon. All right. I like that. So we have two curriculums working as we speak. There's one between nursery and class four. Yeah, we have no class for grade four. Grade four now. All right, all right. I know that. All right. You have the primary one up to grade four and then it goes on back to the 844 system from class five going six, seven. Yeah, up to eight. All right. I love this so much. So you have graphic guys as well. I can see the graphics are beautiful right there. It's a big team working. It's a big team working. Estimate. Roughly about 30 people. Yeah. All right. On the lower side it's about 30 people because you have people working from outside sending information in. So the school is like the hub of information. Wonderful. This idea about innovation and our problems being solved by tech companies from Silicon Valley, is it something that we should take our minds to? These things can be done in kind. We can do them. I think we have companies doing it. I think they call it savannah silicon or savannah something. I don't know. Well, we're looking to make Kenya the hub of technology and ICT in Africa. And hopefully to the world because we have the capability. We have very creative people. This the graphics that you just pointed out is from a Kenyan guy, one of my childhood friends. We have the capability. We have the resources because we have so many young people with nothing to do. And records also show that we have come up with amazing ideas as Kenyans. We have in PESA and people are coming from the UK because I was having a chat with one of my friends back when I was in uni. And he was telling me about mobile money. And I told him, this came from Kenya and he was amazed. I was like, yeah, this was developed by a young guy in Kenya. And it's now been people are coming to Kenya to learn about it. See, this means it's now that we are not able to do it. This was way, way before smart phones. Way before. And even now, I was watching a TED talk. And they were talking about the ability to problem solve specifically in Kenya. And they were showing the M-Farm. They were showing the M-PESA. They were showing the ability for schools to communicate directly with parents through different methods through USSD or wherever exists. And you're saying, we have the ability. As African as Kenya, we have the ability. We have the talent. We have the manpower. So what's left is just for people to apply themselves because nothing good comes easier. People need to apply themselves. They need to apply themselves. All right. So problem solving is a keyword in this age that we are going to be moving into. All right. So problem solvers have a very huge space to exist. Yes. All right. So in a few words, what can you describe as a problem solve? As a problem solve. A problem solve is you identify because it starts with looking at what's there, identify. So I would go for how cars were created. People wanted to move faster. And like Ford says, if you had asked people what they wanted, they would have said, faster horses. So the identification of the problem, people want to move faster. And then look at what exists. And then you need to have a paradigm shift and say, no, we can't have faster horses. You can't have horses on steroids. What next? So what do you do? You build a machine that can move faster. And it doesn't rely on energy, like horse energy, to be able to drag it. OK. Burning calories. It doesn't rely on calories. Yeah. It doesn't rely on calories. OK. So identify the problem. What next after identify the problem? Now you look at the current solution. The current solution. And then you bring a paradigm shift. You bring a paradigm shift. Even if it seems crazy at the moment. All right. Thank you very much for that. How can people get to access smart aid work? So it's currently, you can register on the link. It's online.smartadoo.co.ka. Online.smartadoo.co.ka. All right. How old is online.smartadoo.co.ka? So people can know. We're just over a month old. We started working on this in just April, beginning of April. And we've had a team. That's why we've been able to release in such a short period of time. Yeah. All right. And there's a free test. Yeah. So we're doing like a trial run. Well, up till the end of this week, people can access it for free. And then after this week, end of this week, then you'll be paying five shillings a day. Five shillings a day. Five shillings a day. All right. So you're trying to make it pocket-friendly as well? Pocket-friendly as much as possible. Because we have to make sure we're not leaving anybody. Because they say the weakest link, you're only as strong as the weakest link. And if we leave people behind because of money issues, that becomes a challenge. So we're trying to make it as cost-effective as possible. All right. Because the vision is a better society. The vision is a better 2050. Better 2050, creative. Where Kenya is leading. Where we're leading the world. Integrativity and innovation. Yes. Thank you very much, Saffa Kavinthru. We appreciate you. How can they get to contact guys from Smart EduUp just in case they want to leave? Oh. So we have our helpline. It's 0710-275-662. Yeah. That's our helpline, yeah. All right. Thank you very much, sir. We appreciate you. Keep doing what you're doing. And be blessed for sure. We really needed this. This was timely. Yeah, it was. All right. Thank you very much. We have come to the end of our first interview. And the Smart EduUp is the future of education. It's a complementary service. That's what you said. It's not replacing schools. But it's helping with the learning process right there. Check online. Smartedu.co.ke. Online.smartedu.co.ke. And stay home. Stay safe. Make sure your kids are safe. And stay home and learning and the process. Don't just feed their parents. Feed their minds as well. We'll be back with tomorrow. 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