Efiwe has been selected for the HundrED Global Collection 2027, HundrED’s annual list of the world’s most impactful and scalable innovations in education. We were chosen from more than 800 innovations submitted from around the world.
We first received the news in August, but HundrED asked selected innovators to keep it confidential until the Collection’s official launch this November. Now that the Global Collection 2027 has been unveiled, we can finally share it with you.
What the HundrED Global Collection is
HundrED is a Finland-based, mission-driven organisation that seeks out pedagogically sound, ambitious education innovations and helps them spread across the world. Every year, its Global Collection highlights a small group of innovations that are making a real difference for learners and that can grow to reach many more.
Selection is rigorous. More than 800 innovations were submitted for the 2027 Collection. Over 250 HundrED Academy Members, including academics, educators, innovators, students and education leaders, took part in the review, contributing 3,590 reviews that the HundrED Research Team then evaluated before making the final selection.
Our journey to the Collection
We submitted Efiwe in May 2026. On 25 May, Efiwe was shortlisted and moved into the HundrED Academy Review, which ran from 1 to 15 June. On 13 August, we received the email every founder hopes for: Efiwe had been selected.
The Global Collection 2027 was celebrated at the HundrED Innovation Summit, held alongside the Global Education Forum in Madrid, Spain, on 12 and 13 November 2026. Efiwe was also featured in HundrED’s Global Collection 2027 report.
How HundrED sees Efiwe
This year, HundrED is introducing the Collection through the lens of human flourishing, assigning each innovation to the themes where its contribution is strongest. Efiwe was placed under two: Access & Opportunity, which recognises innovations that expand access to education, learning resources and pathways that might otherwise be scarce or out of reach, and Enabling Environments, which recognises innovations that create learning conditions that are more supportive, inclusive and responsive. In HundrED’s words, Efiwe earned this by adapting learning to different technological, linguistic, accessibility and classroom contexts.
These two themes describe exactly why we built Efiwe.
Why we built Efiwe
Talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not. Coding education was built for people who already had a laptop, fast and affordable internet, English fluency and money for subscriptions. Everyone else was locked out.
In 2024, while serving as Academy Director at an edtech company, our CTO, Chidi Nwaogu, pulled up his graduation numbers: 80 students enrolled, only 6 graduated. The students had not lost interest. They were being disconnected mid-lesson, again and again, until continuing stopped being possible. At the same time, his co-founder Abhinav Negi was running coding bootcamps in remote Himalayan villages, where students kept asking him the same question: “Sir, we have neither a laptop nor the internet. How do we continue learning?”
Efiwe is the answer. It is a mobile-first, AI-powered coding education platform that runs on any smartphone, so no laptop is needed. Once loaded, it works offline, so learning survives unreliable and expensive data. It speaks the learner’s language, with support for 246 languages plus sign language, and its core is free, with every course and core learning feature available at no cost. Every learner gets an AI tutor that gives instant, personalised feedback on every challenge, online or offline, and verifiable, QR-coded certificates turn that learning into proof of skill that employers can check.
Where Efiwe is today
Since launching on 16 August 2025, Efiwe has grown to more than 23,000 learners across 162 countries, with eight courses live: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Tailwind, Python, SQL, PHP and Prompt Engineering.
We have worked with Teach For Nigeria across 10 schools in Lagos and Ogun State, with Lagos State Education Districts IV and II in government senior secondary schools, and with the Kalpavriksha programme in Uttarakhand, India. In a focus group of learners who completed our full HTML course, 100% said they would recommend Efiwe to a friend, and not one dropped out.
What this recognition means to us
“Being selected by HundrED’s Academy of educators, researchers and students tells us that the problem we set out to solve is real, and that our approach is working. We built Efiwe for the learner with a phone, a patchy connection and a big ambition. This recognition belongs to every one of those learners, and to the schools, teachers and partners who have trusted us with them.” —Chidi Nwaogu, Co-founder and CTO, Efiwe
We are grateful to the HundrED Research Team, every Academy Member who reviewed Efiwe, and the learners, teachers and partners who make this work possible.
What comes next
Joining the Global Collection connects Efiwe with a global community of education innovators, researchers and school leaders. We will use it to bring Efiwe to more schools, more countries and more learners who have been left out of coding education until now.
If you lead a school, NGO or government programme and want to bring Efiwe to your learners, we would love to hear from you. And if you have a smartphone, you can start learning to code on Efiwe today, for free.
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