Designing the Minimum Viable Product for the Nigerian EDTECH Platform

Unlike most onboarding which needed to be made quite detailed and sometimes ‘overengineered’ NEDI was quite specific, it was for the Government.

Designing for the government means that you don’t have to struggle for data or users so all you need to do is design for most middle aged and older adults which entails clarity and simplicity.

NEDI needed to capture these user type:

1. Government Official
2. School Administrator
3. Edtech Company
4. Donor/Partner
5. Research/Analyst
6. EMIS/UBEC/NEDI Official

Which meant that we were building a dynamic system for multiple users.

The goal was simply to ask the usertype at the start of onboarding, how they wanted to access NEDI and allow them choose their path which would then take them to their respective dashboard.

The dashboard for these officials, the core of the government, was clearly to show data across different parastatals.

Since I had an incomplete information about the type of data to be shown, it prompted me to research and concluded with the following data:

1. Student Data
2. Teacher Data
3. School Registry Data
4. Attendance Data (Student and Teacher)
5. Test and Exam Results
6. Infrastructure Data
7. Finance Data
8. Incident Reporting Data
9. Other Insights that could be useful to help the Government both stay informed in the educational sector and also help make concrete decisions around it.

The AI sandbox is more like a generative feature on NEDI where an official can go and ask questions about the educational system in Nigeria and based on accumulated data from edtech and since we have captured data from TVET, the Edtech Portal etc, the Sandbox can go through that data and give whatever insight needed to the official.

The Edtech Portal is for every school administrator to manage their individual schools which helps provide data to the top level NEDI. In there, schools can manage partnerships, build an active community and even access the AI sandbox as well

The difference between the edtech portal accessed by schools and the portal accessed by edtech companies is that edtech companies directly see the list of schools that have onboarded on the edtech portal and they can decide to build a partnership with the school by scheduling meetings and having conversations that lead to a partnership close out.

NEDI was an MVP which got presented to the vice president of Nigeria. My role was to deliver the design and this was a one-time project and as at the time of writing this case study, the project still lies at the desk of the Federal Government with fingers crossed it would be taken further ahead.