Efiwe is among the education innovations selected for HundrED’s Global Collection 2027, moving forward into a review by an Academy of over 250 education experts worldwide.
HundrED, a Finland-based organization dedicated to discovering and sharing inspiring innovations in education, has shortlisted Efiwe for its Global Collection 2027. The Global Collection is HundrED’s flagship curation: a yearly selection of education innovations from around the world, chosen for their impact and their potential to transform how people learn.
Efiwe’s innovation will now move into the next phase of the selection process, where it will be reviewed by the HundrED Academy, a global group of educators, researchers, students, and innovators numbering more than 250. The Academy Review period runs from June 1 to June 15, 2026, with final results expected during the last week of August.
Efiwe was selected for its approach to one of the most persistent and overlooked problems in global education: the billions of people locked out of coding education simply because they do not own a laptop or live in an area with reliable internet.
Built on the belief that talent is everywhere but opportunity is not, Efiwe is a mobile-first coding platform that runs entirely on basic smartphones, works completely offline once loaded, supports 246 languages plus sign language, and is free at its core. Launched on August 16, 2025, the platform has since grown to more than 13,000 learners across 139 countries. Its AI tutor gives personalized, instant feedback on every single coding challenge; not generic hints, but feedback informed by how long the learner has been stuck, what mistakes they have made before, and how they are progressing in real time.
The platform today offers five complete courses (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Tailwind, and Python), with PHP, SQL, and React on the way. It has expanded beyond its core web platform to Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and, as of May 2026, SMS through Efiwe Zero, allowing learners without a smartphone or internet connection at all to access the curriculum. For organizations, Efiwe’s Group Accounts and Open API make it possible to run structured, measurable coding education at scale across schools, NGOs, and bootcamps, without a single computer lab.
Efiwe’s co-founder and CTO, Chidi Nwaogu, knows the problem intimately from both sides. As Academy Director at an African-focused edtech organization, he watched students join class, engage actively, and then quietly disappear, not by choice, but because their internet was too unreliable to stay connected. Of 80 students enrolled, only 6 graduated. That experience, combined with co-founder and CEO Abhinav Negi’s parallel reality running coding bootcamps in remote Himalayan villages where students had no laptops and no internet, became the foundation for everything Efiwe is built to be.
For Efiwe, this shortlisting is more than a milestone. It is another signal that a coding platform built from the ground up for people without laptops, without stable internet, and without English as a first language belongs at the very center of the conversation about what the future of education can look like and who it can serve.
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