SDG 4 Power Solutions

SDG 4: Quality Education SDG 4 Power Solutions
  • Learn how you might solve SDG 4 issues with some power solutions
  • Get ideas and templates to take your solutions to the next level

SDG 4 POWER SOLUTION

Meet the passionate minds behind CultureInTech – Favour Adachukwu Uzochukwu, and Peace Chidimma Uzochukwu – two sisters driven by their love for indigenous cultural heritage and a strong determination to preserve the rich culture of the Igbo tribe in South-Eastern Nigeria. Together they created Ichaka, a comprehensive and vital tool designed to promote and preserve the essence of Igbo Language and Culture. 

Favour Uzochukwu

Favour Uzochukwu is a Computer Science major at Babcock University, Nigeria, a Software Developer, and a Technovation Girls and Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador. She was a part of the Technovation Girls 2023 Senior Division Finalist Team -CultureInTech- which used technology to preserve the Igbo Language and Culture.
Passionate about impactful coding, Favour focuses on health and education. She aims to inspire girls to be confident and use their unique perspective to shape the world positively.

I am Uzochukwu Peace Chidimma, a 2023 Technovation Senior Division finalist. I am 16 years old and have a passion for calculations and solving mathematical problems. This is why I worked as the marketing strategist for our app, Ichaka, which was developed to teach future generations the Igbo language. I am also keen on changing the world with amazing ideas. Although I don’t want to be a teacher, I love to impart knowledge, so I constantly find different ways to do so.  

Here is the Ichaka pitch video from 2023.

ICHAKA APP DESIGN

Click on the arrows below to see the different screens of the Ichaka app.

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The Translator and Dictionary tab: The translator component translates words from Igbo to English and back, using the Microsoft Translator API. The Dictionary Section uses the IgboAPI to give audio, definitions. and sentence examples of the Igbo words.
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The Culture tab has five subtabs - Egwu na Abu(for songs and poems), Omenaala Ugbu A (for modern cultures, Omenaala Gboo( for ancient cultures), Egwuregwu (for traditional gameplay) and Akuko( for folktale and folklore). These tabs will be used for the display and upload of Igbo Cultural material.
Latest News and Games
Future features: Latest News displays communication across the Igbo space on important happenings in the community. The Games feature provides interactive games that will help individuals get a better feel of Igbo Cultural practices.

APP BUILDING PROCESS

Click on each question to learn how Favour and Peace ideated, designed, built, and continue to work on their Ichaka app.

And finally, Favour and Peace offer some useful advice for solving problems in the Technovation Challenge and beyond.

TUTORIAL

Favour shows you how to incorporate a translator API into Thunkable, one of the big challenges of their app.

As she put it, “I remember participating in Technovation in 2023 and being so frustrated when it came to building the translator feature of my app. It is one thing to find the right API for the translator and another thing to develop the logic for the translator feature. So, when Technovation reached out for a tutorial on how I developed the feature, I gladly obliged, hoping that by documenting what I did to build out the translation feature, I will save future participants the stress of having to go through the struggles that I went through.”

View Favour's tutorial
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OTHER SOLUTIONS

Here are a few more solutions to spark ideas for you for SDG 4. Click each tab to see some possible features and what coding components you could use to build a similar app.

Peer2Peer

Peer2Peer is an app that helps people connect on different topics to create peer-to-peer study groups.

Click on each image below to see  possible features and how you might implement them.

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Allow users to sign up and then connect with other users based on topic or subject
You could use a cloud database or Signin with Firebase for people to create an account. Users can create new group or search for a group, based on topic and timeframe, again using a cloud database.
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Forum to post questions with other members of your study group
You can use a cloud database to store forum conversations by topic and then use a ListView to display the actual text of the conversation.
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Group members can schedule study group times
You can use a DatePicker and TimePicker components to allow users to set up a meeting time. The information would be stored using a cloud database.
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Users can video conference with other members of the group
You can use the ActivityStarter component to start an app like Zoom or Google Meet with other group members, or you could use an API that would allow video conferencing within your app.

HACK TOGETHER

Hack Together acts as a large crowdsourced portal for online and in-person hackathons

Click on each image below to see a possible feature and how you might implement it.

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Allow coders to sign up and participate in a hackathon
You could use a cloud database to store information about hackathons. Users can search by topic and time using Textboxess and DatePickers to sign up and join a team.
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The app can include tutorials and webinars for participants
You can use the Video component to display appropriate coding tutorials. Or you can include an ActivityStarter to start up an external app like Zoom for users to join a short class on a coding topic.
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Integrate a Chatbot to answer coding questions
You can use a Chatbot component so users can ask questions or get help debugging their programs during the hackathons.
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Teams can code on their project collaboratively
You can use the ActivityStarter or WebViewer component to start an online platform like Visual Studio Live Share or CodeTogether where teams can collaborate virtually. This will work well with a web app, where users can join on their laptop.

SMARTJOB

SmartJob is an app that uses real-time job market data and trends to help students make informed education and career decisions.

Click on each image below to see a possible feature and how you might implement it.

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Provide general information about the job market in the user's location.
You can use the Location Sensor or have the user enter a location using a TextBox to determine the user's location. Then, use an API to gather and display job trends for that location.
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Users can choose from a list of careers of interest to find current job prospects
You can use the ListView component to display jobs that the user can select. Once selected, use an API to display information on that job and upcoming trends. You can also use the Web or WebViewer component to display websites that contain job information in that sector.
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Train an AI model that can predict good job prospects based on historical data
You can use an external AI platform to train the model with historical job information for particular job sectors. Then you can use the model to make predictions for good job prospects. Use a Label to display the output.
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Use a chatbot like ChatGPT to allow the user to ask particular questions about jobs
You would use a Chatbot or OpenAI Services to allow the user to interact with an AI agent on job prospects.
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