Lexplore AI Eye-Tracking Literacy and Dyslexia Screening Pilot — Djibouti's Ministry of Education

Djibouti's Ministry of National and Higher Education partnered with Mirai Partners, a Dubai-based education technology firm, to pilot Lexplore, an AI and eye-tracking literacy assessment, in the country's schools. Lexplore records a child's eye movements while reading and uses machine-learning models to estimate reading level and flag possible developmental delays, including dyslexia, in under five minutes per student. Mirai describes the Djibouti rollout as the first deployment of the tool in the country and part of a multi-year plan to evaluate long-term implementation, alongside similar government partnerships the company runs in Nigeria, Ethiopia and Ghana, with an ambition to reach over a million students across Africa and the Middle East.

The underlying Lexplore methodology has independent, peer-reviewed backing: a 2026 validation study in Frontiers in Education, building on earlier work by Seimyr and Benfatto and a University of Memphis validation, reports 97% accuracy and 85% test–retest reliability in detecting reading difficulties across grades 1–8 using the same eye-tracking approach. That evidence, however, concerns the general Lexplore model rather than Djibouti-specific outcomes, since the local pilot is explicitly described as still being evaluated for long-term implementation.

No information was found on data protection safeguards for children's eye-tracking and reading data collected under this partnership, nor on any teacher-facing training component — both are gaps worth watching as the pilot expands toward its regional scale-up ambitions.

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