Explore partnership opportunitiesScale digital capacity building with atingi
A free learning platform.
Free technical support.
Free e-learning expertise.
atingi’s free-of-charge learning management system is a cost-saving, scalable and sustainable way for organisations to implement non-profit digital capacity building in the Global South. We offer our platform plus technical support and digital learning project management resources, all 100% free-of-charge to those organisations who wish to conduct digital learning programmes with learners age 16+ residing in the Global South.
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Our impact map
Where can
atingi be used?
Our learners are based in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. atingi exclusively serves learners age 16+ who own an email account and have alphabetic literacy and therefore usually have completed basic education at minimum.
We look for partners who wish to use atingi to impact these learners through offering free-of-charge digital learning programs – whether by uploading content of their own or enrolling learners into our existing courses.
Partnership options with atingi
There are many areas in which you can partner with us, and we are always open to new and creative ways to partner. Our platform and large global partner network combined with GIZ’s international footing and activities allow for varied partnership formats to collaboratively fuel human capacity building and international development.
Course Publication
With our most popular partnership, you can create and host your e-learning courses on atingi, 100% free-of-charge. Upload or create courses with our inbuilt authoring tools and make them publicly accessible to our growing user base – or keep them in a private course room.
Course Promotion
Promote atingi’s courses to your beneficiaries and networks so that they can benefit from them – the more people are reached, the bigger the impact! If you reach more than 5,000 learners with your campaign, we feature your course on our website.
Course Certification
You can endorse courses by adding your logo to our certificates. This promotes your organisation to a relevant audience and increases the value of the certificate for the learner. Simply select the courses or topics you wish to support and be associated with.
Platform Merger
Do you already have an existing e-learning platform? Connect your platform to the atingi platform via APIs to display either platform’s course portfolio on the other one and leverage our growing learner base to supercharge your content’s outreach.
Connectivity Partnership
If you are an infrastructural provider (fixed broadband or mobile internet) but lack relevant content to offer to your beneficiaries to engage them with your service, we can add the atingi platform and content onto your infrastructure.
Employability Partnership
If you are a job platform or an employer, we collaboratively design paths of graduates from your preferred courses to your website or HR department.
To find out about additional partnership options, watch this video!
Why choose atingi as your learning platform?
Cost-saving
Using our free learning management system includes technical support & hosting, saving 3-year projects with an LMS requirement up to EUR 280,000.
Time-saving
No platform design, setup nor maintenance: atingi is ready to go, enabling you to implement non-profit capacity building projects up to 12 months faster.
Content-rich
Access a rapidly growing library of more than 400 free-of-charge public courses in ten different topics that are mostly openly licensed, enabling adaptation.
Feature-rich
80+ instructional & assessment features: webinar, forum, video, quiz, collaborative document editing, assignment & much more!
Flexible
atingi supports most instructional formats from tutored, to self-paced, peer-to-peer, gamified, MOOC and more!
Multilingual
atingi currently offers 9 system languages, but 100+ languages can be added upon request.
Accessible
The LMS can be accessed online on all browser-enabled devices (e.g. smartphone, desktop, tablet) or offline through our Android app and our micro server solution ‘atingi in a box’.
Scalable
Extend your reach through 700,000+ registered learners and atingi’s marketing and partner channels.
Manageable
Easily create courses from scratch or import existing ones, make them public or private, manage your team’s editing access & view insightful analytics.
Certified
Design custom PDF-based diplomas or advanced Open Badges to automatically validate your learners’ accomplishments.
User-friendly
The platform’s interface is easy to navigate; we conduct user testing on a regular basis and evolve the platform every month.
Collaboration
Exchange e-learning and capacity building expertise as well as resources with our growing network of 200+ partners via free matchmaking and events.
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Why does atingi provide a platform for free?
Our role as a digital learning platform developed by the German Development Cooperation is to provide a public good that reduces barriers to capacity building across the Global South.
Designing, setting up and maintaining a learning management system from scratch is costly, complex, time-consuming and drains scarce resources in non-profit projects from areas much more crucial for digital learning impact. Oftentimes, a LMS is set up by international development projects specifically for their individual undertaking. Unfortunately, these projects often lack reach and communities of practice, leading to underperforming results.
We want to avoid reinventing the wheel, save resources and ensure impact by providing a free, state-of-the-art and sustainable platform that our partners can leverage for their international development projects.
Many project-specific LMS are abandoned after some time due to government changes or depletion of maintenance resources, resulting in instability and a negative learner experience. atingi meanwhile is here to stay.
Based on the Principles for Digital Development, our platform is designed for scale, encourages the exchange and adaptation of existing digital learning resources, protects user data, most of its content is openly licensed, and certifications are aligned to open standards. It is also recognized as the standard tool for digital learning within GIZ and throughout German development cooperation.
We intend to reach millions of learners by 2025 and make culturally relevant, SDG-advancing courses – from environmental protection to employability, gender equality to digital skills, and so much more – accessible 100% for free!
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Partner testimonials
Partner success stories
Project: FABRIC (GIZ)
Training Asian fashion factories in Greenhouse Gas Accounting & Chemical Management
The project FABRIC by end of 2022 had reached more than 11,000 learners with its “Climate Action Training for the Fashion Industry” and “Chemical Management” courses in 8 different languages, in partnership with UNFCCC and renown fashion brands like Adidas, Puma, H&M and Hugo Boss.
Project: eAcademy Tourism & Hospitality (GIZ)
Upskilling laid off tourism staff in sustainable tourism management concepts for employability
The Tourism & Hospitality eAcademy by end of 2022 had reached over 25,000 learners with its 40+ courses in English and French on how to run and support a sustainable tourism business, in partnership with organisations like TUI Care Foundation.
Our impact
Gender & Inclusion
Gender equality & inclusive e-learning
Women, girls and other marginalized groups often face significant barriers to accessing quality education, which hinders their personal development, economic independence, and political participation. At atingi we want to provide transformative learning opportunities to all.