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Stephen Downes

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This is a press release and I don't have much information beyond the basics. Tooshare describes itself as a "digital alternative to schools and universities is 100% African and that combines an e-learning platform and a social network." The program is funded by Tooshare and IU Group, styled as "Germany's largest private university group," and is managed with Study Access Alliance, which already partners with IU for  € 1,000 scholarships. I think the program consists of tuition discounts and not actual payments. "A pilot project will be launched in June that will provide 10,000 scholarships to talented young people from Senegal, Rwanda, Ghana, South Africa, and Morocco." The program speaks to the scale of the funding needed (and I would invite readers to compare the billions spent on war as a contrast).

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