Like great things that start from small beginnings, Faiz Bashir started FlexiSAF fourteen years ago to address the administrative problems of enrolment, grading and records in Nigerian schools. In just twenty days he built a software to solve the challenge and today, 120 tertiary institutions and 700 schools are running on this system. Having scaled that hurdle, he scratched deeper only to realise that administration was never the real obstacle, delivering quality education was.
For Africa, a continent that boasts the world’s youngest population where 60% are under 25 and has the fastest-growing tertiary enrolment rate globally at 4.3% per year; there was a need to go a step further. Market Data Forecast revealed that the eLearning market across the continent is projected to grow from $200 million to $20 billion by 2032. These statistics are real and the demands are mounting as institutions struggle with hiring lecturers or developing curricula. For an innovator like Bashir, the vision was how to create a solution through AI.
Delivering Excellence with AWS
Today, 130,000 learners across 260 universities are the beneficiaries of the ingenious solution by FlexiSAF in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), with the launch of Distinction.app in April 2024. The platform which runs entirely on AWS Generative AI models from Amazon Bedrock, specifically Nova and Titan, power content generation while sixteen microservices handle everything from document processing to student analytics.
