3Kobo is an open-source EdTech and language infrastructure project focused on improving access to technology education by localizing technical vocabularies into African languages.
The project currently focuses on Nigeria’s three major languages: Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo.
Millions of learners in Africa struggle to access technology education due to language barriers. Most digital learning content is delivered in English, limiting comprehension, retention, and participation for children and youth in low-resource settings.
3Kobo addresses this by building standardized, validated, and openly accessible technical vocabularies that educators, students, and EdTech platforms can use to teach and learn in local languages.
- Open, validated multilingual tech vocabularies
- APIs for integrating localized terms into EdTech platforms
- Crowdsourced data collection tools
- Deduplication and validation engines
- Contributor reward mechanisms
- Open datasets for education and research
- Core platform: Apache License 2.0
- Language datasets: Creative Commons CC BY 4.0
- K–12 and tertiary education
- Vocational and digital skills training
- Local-language STEM education
- EdTech content localization
- AI and language research
Documentation coming soon.
We welcome contributions from educators, linguists, developers, and researchers. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.
3Kobo follows an open governance model to ensure transparency, inclusion, and community trust.