Eduze (Visit website)
Location: South Africa
Sector: Edutech
As a creator, I don’t need to remind you that “content is king”. In order to stand out from the crowd, your content has to be unique and connect with your target audience. At a point in your career journey as a creator, you would have experienced creative block or actualizing ideas. Any of these could last for days, weeks, even months. This would have affected your productivity and consistency. And you’re aware of the popular saying “out of sight is out of mind”. When your audience won’t see your content often, they tend to forget your brand. This is the problem Eduze intends to solve.
As a Solution…
As a solution to most Africans’ inability to access digital content, Eduze sprouted. The company was co-founded in 2013 by Charlie Beuthin who is also the CEO and Marko Nieminen, the CTO. Eduze is a parent company for Eduze Passenger Transport and Eduze Corporate Training and Skills Development.
Eduze provides free and easy access to world-class digital content that can uplift, inform and empower those who are too apprehensive, challenged, confused and financially challenged to access the traditional web and online services. A user can access unlimited content online with their single product called CLOX.
Can we talk about Cloud in a box – CLOX?
The poor connection of some network providers will frustrate your life to the extent of giving up on important tasks. Gosh! Sometimes, you have to reach the 2nd or 3rd floor of a building before you can upload a course. It will take you forever to upload/download a 1min resource video. It sucks really!
Sometimes, the data cost is not even the problem but a poor connection. With CLOX, you enjoy a cloud inbox – data free and high-speed internet service. Like, you don’t need data!
Let me provide detailed information about this product. After all, that’s why I’m here?
CLOX is the super functional and affordable offline platform for classrooms, course creators, podcasters, vloggers, content writers and others. With this, you’re able to distribute videos, texts, books, podcasts and moreover in-built Wi-Fi or playback on a TV.
The Clox provides a centralised content platform that is easy to use for first-time digital users. What’s more, it has substantially reduced GWF’s monthly bandwidth fees. It is an ideal tool for organisations working to democratise access to learning in rural areas.
Features of the Product
CLOX can store Thousands Of Hours Of Content; video, audio, PDF, eBooks, LMS, apps, quizzes – anything digital!
It is easily deployed – Plug and play and can be easily moved or fixed – Solar options – Wi-Fi and/or HDMI to big screens.
Remote Management – Eduze management can remotely monitor and manage each CLOX via 3G – User and content analytics, captured data, upload and download content
Sponsored Learning Channels – Dedicated, branded content channels that cover the curriculum plus topics like entrepreneurship, innovation and work readiness.
A Safe, Reliable Space – Clox offers a safe, secure autonomous network that requires little to no other infrastructure.
How about CLOX in the classroom?
Eduze has made learning really easy and enjoyable. CLOX – In the classroom, can be connected to an existing Wi-Fi and LAN, serving over 100 concurrent users. The range can be extended using optional high powered antennas. Similarly, it can have over 30 concurrent video streaming connections over Wi-Fi with little to no buffering. CLOX can also be used with TV, projectors, mobile devices and desktop computers. As a student, Eduze CLOX provides you with downloadable resources that can help you attain success in your sojourn. Teachers made it known that Eduze serves as a good resource for their students, especially in science and history.
How to access CLOX
As a web-based management service, it’s easily accessible from your mobile or desktop. To get to know what you need in the digital space, CLOX provides you with a contact form. Here, you are required to provide information such as Name, Email, Subject and Message. Providing them with the right information will assist in decision making.
In 2016, Eduze was able to raise a sum of $500k venture round from TED. Their latest funding from a Series A round made it a total of $1.3million. We realized that so far, Eduze has only one investor, TED. And for a business to thrive and make more impact, getting funds is really important. Therefore, we implore investors to tap into this market, this will give them more returns. Eduze is one of its kind in Africa. The fact that one can access digital resources without data, at a faster and cheaper rate is amazing. We all know that data is a luxury.
Finally
Dear stakeholders, this is a rare opportunity for you to level up your game either offline or in the digital space. Anywhere you are in the world, you can have access to Eduze CLOX.
I realized that it takes time for Eduze to get in touch after a request. I suggest a confirmation email should follow immediately stating that the request they get and will get a response to. Instead of keeping users waiting aimlessly.
