A personalized learning tutoring app Tuteria developed by 27-year-old Godwin Benson has won the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation awarded by the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering.
Tuteria is a platform that links qualified tutors to student in their area and within their budget. The app has a ratings system, and allows students to book lessons using an upfront online payment system which solves the problem of access to quality, personalised learning and helps people earn income from sharing their knowledge.
Tutors are then paid once the lessons have been confirmed and Tuteria takes 15 to 30% commission for each paid lesson. Mr. Benson however plans to use the prize money to widen Tuteria’s offering “even beyond Nigeria” and to include online classes and video courses as well.
According to Mr. Benson,
“It is something that solves the problem of access to quality, personalised learning and helps people earn income from sharing their knowledge.”
Mr. Benson emerged top over other 16 participants to clinch the $32,000 prize money.
Other entries in the competition includes a system that reduces the amount of energy used to heat water, an app that controls water consumption and a smart jacket to identity pneumonia.
The engineering innovation award was launched in 2014 and rewards innovators in sub-Saharan Africa.
