Corporate Partnerships Circle - Digital Futures (International)

Igniting Digital Futures with EduSpots: Partnering to Power Digitalised Community-Led Education Before joining EduSpots, I didn’t know that you could be in a “room” in an online space; now, I’m hosting Zoom sessions on safeguarding for headteachers across the district.

(Hamidu Kaadri, Headteacher, Yamfo Spot)

EduSpots ignites digitalised community-led education.

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The Scale of Digital Inequity Ghana Statistical Service reported that 5.1 million people aged 6+ were digitally excluded in the three months before the 2021 census (no ICT device use) and 31.4% did not use the internet in that period.

The 2021 Girl Child thematic brief further reports that almost 1.6 million girls aged 6 to 17 did not use any ICT device in the three months preceding census night.

What This Means in Practice This combination of low foundational learning outcomes, inconsistent access to learning support and unequal access to digital tools creates an urgent need for inclusive, low-data approaches that improve learning outcomes at scale and deliberately reach underserved and marginalised groups.

EduSpots’ experience mirrors this reality.

In Dulugu, in rural Bolgatanga, participation in digital literacy rose from 2 of 20 girls able to turn on a laptop to every member confidently using one and gaining essential technology skills.

The barrier was not willingness: it was access.

Across the 50 communities where EduSpots operates, approximately 90% in rural areas, access to personal digital devices, computers and reliable internet is limited or non-existent.

As a result:

Learners have little exposure to digital tools.

Volunteer educators are constrained in delivering interactive learning.

Online safety risks increase as parents struggle to catch up with digital norms.

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National Recognition and Momentum I’ve heard about Microsoft PowerPoint and have seen my lecturers use it during lectures. I love the images and the entire graphics; I just don’t know how to create one.

(Muniru, teacher, Ejura) The urgency of addressing this gap has been recognised nationally. Speaking at a UNESCO workshop in April 2023, Prof. Edward Appiah, Director-General of NaCCA, emphasised

“ICT skills are no longer an optional extra in our education system.”

Government efforts to strengthen digital learning frameworks and expand infrastructure are ongoing, alongside the significant digital access work of the Ghana Library Authority (GLA). EduSpots’ partnership with the GLA reflects this shared commitment to expanding community-based digital opportunity.

A parent in Abofour, gaining access to digital tools for the first time.

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Why This Matters Now As education systems increasingly integrate technology, digital access and skills are critical to ensuring no learner is left behind. Without practical exposure to digital learning, learners risk exclusion from opportunities essential for future education, employment and participation in a rapidly changing world.

The need is urgent, but it is also solvable.

With the right partnerships, community-based digital access can provide immediate, scalable and sustainable impact, enabling all communities to create the futures they want to see.

EduSpots: a digitalised, community-led education network operating across 11 regions of Ghana

50

402

Spots

trained Catalysts

Across 11 regions of Ghana and Kenya in underserved communities.

35% have been with EduSpots for 2 years or longer.

2809 10429 30+ Sparks in Clubs

Learners using Spots

Partner NGOs

KG-B9, more than 50% are female,

Borrowing books, using digital tools, and gaining mentorship

Engaging in our participatory model via Communities of Pracitce.

Our work is led by communities; equipping local leaders and learners with the skills, tools and confidence to thrive.

More than 25% of Catalysts have served three years or longer, demonstrating exceptional retention and leadership resilience.

Our model blends digital innovation with indigenous knowledge and collaborative learning, ensuring education reflects local cultures, languages and priorities. As AI reshapes work and knowledge, EduSpots ensures the future of learning is locally led, inclusive and future-ready.

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Digital Futures Responds at Scale Had I not taken part in the Canva training, I would not have had the skills to support my community in responding to a crisis situation. ( Isaac Ohene, Atanve Spot) EduSpots Digital Futures is our flagship solution to Ghana’s growing digital inequity. By combining community leadership with strengthened and sustainable digital infrastructure, Digital Futures provides learners and communities with meaningful, long-term access to technology and digital skills.

Through Digital Futures, we: Build digital and literacy skills for Basic 3-6 learners through DigiLit Clubs, fostering collaborative skills in primary education ecosystems.

Embed community-led digital learning, ensuring it is culturally relevant, sustainable and age-appropriate.

Equip Catalysts with leadership and digital skills via EduBytes a certified monthly training programme with modules including Generative AI for Classrooms, Canva, Google Workspace, CapCut, ChatGPT, LinkedIn profile development, CV support and Digital Storytelling

Expand shared tablet and device access across 50 community-owned learning hubs.

Strengthen safeguarding and online safety through the Keeping Spots Safe (KSS) strand, with locally led protection systems.

Transform pedagogy to be more inclusive, interactive, and culturally relevant through integrated digital learning.

This is not a short-term technology distribution programme.

It is long-term digital capacity building, creating the infrastructure, skills and confidence that communities need to thrive in a rapidly digitalising world.

“The programme gave me more than skills, it gave me vision, confidence, and a community.”

-Hamidu Kaadri, Catalyst and Peer Mentor

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Our Digitalised, Community-Led Model Digital capacity building is a core pillar of everything we do, not an add-on. EduSpots ensures that learning is relevant, inclusive, locally owned and measurable through: •

Digital tools: tech kits, tablets, laptops, projectors, WiFi

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Project based learning: monthly digital challenges embedded across learning hubs

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Digital platforms: EduSpots App, WhatsApp Channels & YouTube Edu-Animations

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Digital Futures Certificates: Bite-sized certificates, with weekly sessions and tasks.

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In-person digital skills training: for learners, Catalysts, parents and wider educators

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Access and inclusion support: devices, data, and connectivity solutions

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DigiLit Clubs (upper primary): building early digital literacy and confidence

Our Impact in 2025 “The shift towards more learner- centred, inclusive, and practical teaching methods has transformed school-based pedagogy, making education more relevant and engaging for students.” -(Expectation State, Independent Evaluation, 2025) Early Years Literacy

63%

EduKidz Sparks increased by one or more ASER literacy levels in 10 months, with 29% rising by two or more levels.

(ASER, 2025)

Digital Skills

STEM

Active Citizenship

Eco Leadership

13%

13%

11%

15%

growth in digital confidence among P4-P6 learners

growth in engagement in Maths and Science among JHS 1-3 learners

rise in Sense of Community Index among Catalysts

Increase in Environment Action Scale among Catalysts

(ImpactEd, 10 Month Study, 2025)

(ImpactEd, 10 Month Study, 2024)

(ImpactEd, 10 month study, 2025)

(ImpactEd, 10 month study, 2025)

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Safety as a Foundation Our approach embeds robust safeguarding systems across every Spot ensuring children, volunteers and communities are protected, empowered and accountable. Keeping Spots Safe (KSS) is our bold, community-rooted initiative that reimagines safeguarding as collective care rather than institutional control. It empowers learners, Catalysts and families to challenge harmful norms and co-create inclusive, emotionally safe learning spaces through storytelling, play and peer mentorship.

Safety is not treated as compliance alone, it is a locally-driven foundation for sustainable, community-led impact.

Watch our latest Edu-Animation tackling online safety, one many culturally rooted stories designed to solve local problems:

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SCAN HERE TO WATCH

Images capture online safety sessions with local parents in Ejura, and learners creating Digital Footprint Manifestos in Abofour.

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Digital Access in Action “My vision is to create a dynamic space where Sparks are equipped with essential digital skills to thrive and lead in a changing world.”

Jephta Oppong, Catalyst, Aboabo No.4 Spot

At Aboabo No 4 Spot, EduSpots has transformed learning into an interactive, collaborative experience.

Students and teachers gain digital and environmental skills, using tablets for coding, research and creative projects.

These tools also support EcoSTEM initiatives, helping students track environmental projects and become community advocates. Structured digital training equips every student for a tech-driven future, making learning engaging, personalized and future-ready.

“Using tablets helped us learn together and believe in ourselves.”

— Spark, Aboabo No.4 Spot

When shared tablets were introduced during the DigiLit Monthly Challenges:

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Learners engaged in their first structured digital learning experience

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Sparks completed collaborative digital tasks and baseline skills assessments

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Participation shifted from passive observation to active, confident engagement

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The wider school community recognised the club’s strengthened learning culture

For many learners, this was their first opportunity to use digital technology in a safe, supportive, community-led environment.

The takeaway: Access to shared digital devices, delivered through a community-led model, builds more than skills. It builds confidence, agency and momentum that extends beyond the classroom.

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Why Partner with EduSpots?

I have been working with education and community development NGOs in Ghana for almost 25 years and EduSpots stands out for the quality of its work, the creativity of its model and the integrity of its people.

- Sally Vivyan, Co-Director, Gower Street Trust

10+ years of trusted, community-led education expertise in Ghana and beyond.

Winner, 2025 Theirworld Education Innovation Scale-Up Award

Delivers meas urable contributions to SDGs 4, 5, 8, 13 and corporate ESG priorities

EduSpots App enables Catalysts to run Spots safely with real-time MEL tracking and reporting

Proven partnership principles: community-led, long-term, flexible, outcome-focused

Strong social media presence and internationally recognized campaigns with BBC News coverage

Supported by the following partners among others:

Outstanding and trusted leadership:

Professor Elsie Effah Kaufmann

Emeritus Professor Gloria Agyemang

Celebrated QuizMistress and Dean of the School of Engineering Sciences at University of Ghana (Patron)

Previous Executive Dean at the School of Business and Management, Royal Holloway (Global Chair of Trustees)

Dr. Richard Amoah

Cat Davison

Head of Research at Education Sub Saharan Africa (Chair of Ghana Board of Directors)

Global Teacher Prize Finalist and UNESCO Youth For Peace Young Leader - (Chief Executive Officer)

In short: decade-long expertise, award-winning innovation, and community-driven reach to deliver real, measurable impact.

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Partnership Opportunities We work with organisations whose values align with digital transformation, education and skills development. Partnerships are flexible and tailored to your priorities. They can be financial, technologyled, skills-based, resource-focused, or a combination; structured as short-term pilots or longer-term strategic collaborations.

Partners can choose one or multiple avenues, or create blended models, to deliver measurable, sustained impact while aligning with CSR, ESG and skills-development priorities.

CATEGORY

OPPORTUNITIES

IMPACT

Financial

Strategic investment to strengthen and sustain EduSpots’ Digital Futures, expand tablet access and strengthen community learning hubs

Unlocks immediate digital access for thousands of learners and sustains community hubs

Digital & Resource Support

Device donations, digital resources, data packages and connectivity solutions

Provides learners and Catalysts with the tools needed to engage, collaborate and build digital skills

Skills & Expertise

Catalyst leadership and digital capacity training; digital mentoring and coaching

Builds local capacity, enhances learning outcomes and strengthens long-term sustainability

Strategic & Collaborative

Research collaboration, strategic advice, co-branded literacy or digital learning campaigns

Amplifies programme reach, improves content quality and enhances community engagement

Through these avenues, partners can contribute to closing the digital divide, equipping young people with future-ready skills and creating measurable, sustained impact in communities across Ghana.

Currently, each Spot has access to just 2 tablets, with DigiLit learners clustered in groups of up to 15. Your support enables them to transform their learning outcomes.

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Partnership in Practice Through EduSpots Digital Futures, a corporate partner could combine:

Funding 20 DigiLit clubs across the network this year, embedding digital learning, on track to reach 40 by 2026

Skills-based volunteering where staff guide Catalysts to develop hands-on digital capabilities through Digital Futures.

Providing technical expertise to strengthen the EduSpots App or digital content.

Meaningful employee engagement.

A credible, communityembedded ESG story grounded in sustained impact, not one-off intervention

THE RESULT:

Measurable gains in digital confidence and employability.

Manaf’s Story EduKidz Club

DigiLit Club

Borrowing Books during Covid

Manaf’s journey Starts here

Manaf is one of 2800 learners annually that enrol in EduSpots’ digitalised future-ready education clubs, with more than 10% of learners becoming Catalysts.

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EcoSTEM Club President

Active Catalyst Manaf’s journey today

Scan here to watch the full journey of Manaf

Watch Abdul Manaf’s EduSpots’ journey from Spark to Catalyst here.

Join our Corporate Partnerships Circle Invest in EduSpots’ Digital Futures EduSpots invites Ghanaian companies to invest in EduSpots’ Digital Futures, our flagship initiative accelerating community-led digital inclusion across Ghana, with plans to grow from 50 to 100 Spots in 2026-2027.

Through the Corporate Partnerships Circle, Ghanaian businesses can contribute directly to expanding and sustaining this national digital education network.

Each tier reflects a different level of strategic investment and engagement.

TIER

Legacy Partner

Sustain Partner

MONTHLY (GHS)

12,500

5,000

ANNUAL (GHS)

POTENTIAL IMPACT OF YOUR INVESTMENT

150,000

Network-wide digital skills and EdTech transformation.

60,000

Improving digital skills, device access and online safety for 1000+ learners.

Join online Quarterly Conversations; strong brand visibility; staff engagement opportunities; recognition across digital and in-person platforms.

Structured impact summaries; recognition in annual and impact reports; digital acknowledgement; event invitations.

Annual Digital Futures impact summary; partner listing; acknowledgement in selected communications.

Catalyse Partner

2,500

30,000

Enabling a cluster of Spots to access digital tools, resources & training.

Ignite Partner

1,000

12,000

Enabling one Spot to have access to digital tools, resources & training.

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ENGAGEMENT & VISIBILITY

Flagship strategic partnership.

Senior leadership engagement; prominent brand positioning; bespoke impact reporting; recognition at major events.

Why This Matters for Ghanaian Businesses Through the EduSpots Corporate Partnerships Circle, your organisation becomes a strategic partner in building inclusive digital futures, ensuring that technological progress translates into shared opportunity across Ghana.

As Ghana’s economy accelerates toward digital transformation, digital skills are no longer optional, they are essential for employability, entrepreneurship and economic participation.

Yet in underserved rural communities, where 90% of EduSpots’ learners live, access to devices, connectivity and structured digital learning remains limited.

By investing in EduSpots’ Digital Futures, Ghanaian companies can:

1. Strengthen the future workforce by equipping learners with digital confidence and employable skills

Advance digital inclusion across 11 regions, enabling all

2. communities to create the futures they want to see.

3. Support a sustainable, community-owned education model, empowering Catalysts and local leaders to deliver long-term impact

4. Deliver measurable outcomes aligned with national development priorities

This is not short-term CSR. It is a strategic investment in Ghana’s human capital and digital future.

By joining the Circle, your organisation becomes a strategic partner in strengthening inclusive digital education, shaping a future where technology empowers every learner and community.

We welcome the opportunity to explore how your organisation can play a defining role in building Ghana’s digital future and demonstrate leadership in global social impact.

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Join our Corporate Partnerships Circle Invest in EduSpots’ Digital Futures EduSpots invites forward-thinking organisations to invest in EduSpots’ Digital Futures, our flagship initiative accelerating community-led digital inclusion across Ghana, with plans to grow from 50 to 100 Spots in 2026-2027.

Digital Futures is not a short-term project. It is a scalable digital infrastructure model embedded across 50 communityowned learning hubs, powered by 400+ locally trained volunteer educators.

Through the Corporate Partnerships Circle, organisations can contribute directly to the expansion, strengthening and long-term sustainability of this national digital access network.

Each tier represents a different level of strategic investment and engagement.

ANNUAL COMMITMENT

STRATEGIC SCOPE OF INVESTMENT

ENGAGEMENT & VISIBILITY

£60,000+

National-scale expansion, innovation pilots and long-term system strengthening within Digital Futures

Flagship strategic partnership. Co-designed initiatives aligned with corporate priorities; executive roundtables; thought-leadership collaboration; prominent cross-platform brand positioning; bespoke impact dashboards; direct engagement with community and national stakeholders.

Sustain Partner

£20,000–£59,999

Multi-community implementation and programme growing across regions

Strategic programme alignment; quarterly performance reporting; senior engagement opportunities; brand visibility across digital and print platforms; participation in campaign initiatives.

Catalyse Partner

£5,000–£19,999

Targeted regional delivery, digital device access or thematic programme support

Structured impact summaries; recognition in annual reporting; digital acknowledgement; invitations to selected events and briefings.

Ignite Partner

£1,000–£4,999

Direct contribution to digital devices, DigiLit Clubs, and learner access

Annual Digital Futures impact summary; partner listing; invitations to partner updates and selected engagements.

TIER

Legacy Partner

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The Opportunity for Corporate Partners Through the Corporate Partnerships Circle, your organisation contributes to strengthening Ghana’s future workforce pipeline, ensuring that digital transformation includes, rather than excludes, the communities most at risk of being left behind.

Investing in EduSpots’ Digital Futures is an investment in:

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INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC PARTICIPATION:

helping communities access the tools, skills, and opportunities essential for education, employment, and entrepreneurship

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YOUTH EMPLOYABILITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP:

helping communities access the tools, skills, and opportunities essential for education, employment, and entrepreneurship

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COMMUNITY RESILIENCE IN A DIGITAL ERA:

building sustainable, locally owned digital learning infrastructure

This is not short-term CSR. It is a strategic investment in Ghana’s human capital and digital future.

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By joining the Circle, your organisation becomes a strategic partner in strengthening inclusive digital education, shaping a future where technology empowers every learner and community.

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP AND SHARED RESPONSIBILITY:

We welcome the opportunity to explore how your organisation can play a defining role in building Ghana’s digital future and demonstrate leadership in global social impact.

enabling your organisation to advance international development priorities, ESG goals and cross-border social impact

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This is my first time using a tablet. The experience cannot easily be forgotten due to the “talking” Alexa. I believe if students have the opportunity to use these kinds of devices, learning will be much easier and fun and many students will be dropping to the Spot.

(Alhassan Ragadawu, EcoSTEM Club Spark in Kalpohin, Tamale)

Want to join us in shaping #OurCollectiveFuture?

Email our CEO, Cat Davison at cdavison@eduspots.org or contact our Fundraising Coordinator Priscilla Baffour on +233 54 523 3368 or pbaffour@eduspots.org

www.eduspots.org

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