American Tower (ATC), a provider of digital communications infrastructure, and ProFuturo, a digital education programme promoted by the Telefonica Foundation and Spanish not-for-profit banking foundation la Caixa Foundation, have jointly announced the expansion of their alliance to Nigeria to foster digital inclusion in schools in Africa.
After a successful roll-out in Kenya, the expansion of the programme to Nigeria aims to continue transforming children’s education through technology with the global objective of reducing the educational gap.
This global agreement between American Tower and ProFuturo aims to support underserved communities by implementing social programmes that enhance quality of life and promote equitable access to the digital world.
Thanks to this expansion to Nigeria, the collaboration is set to positively impact nearly 30,000 children from vulnerable communities in Kenya, Nigeria and parts of Latin America by providing quality digital education through innovative educational projects supported by technology.
This project not only covers the education to be received by the students but also the training to be delivered to more than 1,000 teachers who will facilitate the roll-out of the training to children in Africa and Latin America.
The partners say the impact of this project will be truly far-reaching as it will not only transform access to digital education but will also create a large international network of educators who teach, learn and share knowledge to achieve better education in the world.
Magdalena Brier, Managing Director of ProFuturo, points out that this agreement highlights the enormous potential of these types of alliances in boosting digital inclusion and how they contribute to strengthening the positive impact of educational projects on the ground, such as those that ProFuturo itself has been developing since 2016.
She continues: “In this way, education with technology has enormous potential to help reduce the educational gap, thanks to its reach and capacity for inclusion, bringing high-quality content to the most difficult environments, which would be very difficult to access in any other way.”
