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YYeni AI Lüderitz Pilot — A Namibian Youth-Founded AI Tutoring Startup's Government-Endorsed School Trial

Namibia · Lüderitz · See the Namibia profile

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Namibian startup YYeni, founded by NUST students who won Huawei's 2023 Tech4Good Global Competition, is piloting its AI tutoring chatbot at Lüderitz Secondary School with Telecom Namibia connectivity and Ministry of Education endorsement, targeting 25 schools and 2,500 learners b

100,000 USD (1st place)
Huawei Seeds for the Future Tech4Good Global Competition prize (January 2024)
5 months
Pilot duration (launched July 2025)
25 schools
Scale-up target — schools (target by end of 2026)
2,500 learners
Scale-up target — learners (target by end of 2026)

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
YYeni; Telecom Namibia; Namibia's Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture; NUST Innovation Hub
Period
5-month pilot launched July 2025; scale-up target of 25 schools/2,500 learners by end of 2026
Keywords
AI tutoring, K-12 education, rural connectivity, youth-founded edtech

Context

Namibian startup YYeni was founded by NUST students Vitalis Haupindi and Lotto Nanghonda Jr. at the NUST Innovation Hub, who won first place and US$100,000 in Huawei's 3rd Seeds for the Future Tech4Good Global Competition in January 2024, building an AI tutoring study-assistant chatbot.

Objectives

In July 2025, YYeni launched a five-month research pilot at Lüderitz Secondary School in southwestern Namibia, integrating its AI tutoring product alongside regular teacher-led instruction, with a stated goal of scaling to 25 schools and 2,500 learners by the end of 2026.

Activities

Telecom Namibia provided the connectivity infrastructure needed to run the pilot in the remote coastal town, and the pilot is endorsed by Namibia's Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture as a blueprint-building exercise; prior to this government-backed pilot, YYeni was already used in some private Namibian schools.

Conclusions

As of this review, no outcome data — learning gains, usage rates or teacher feedback — from the Lüderitz pilot has been published; coverage to date documents the launch and the company's credentials, not a post-pilot evaluation.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)

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