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Idea Academy NGO · Passing on knowledge

Fund the assignments. Strengthen the capacity.

Idea Academy works with national and international partners and funders to carry out its public-interest assignments. It also trains businesses, NGOs, government bodies and universities in data, AI, machine learning and automation.

Training and capacity building

Data analysis with Excel — Level 1: Analysis & Business Data

5 intensive days

Accountants, managers, executive assistants, project leads — anyone who produces figures.

Data analysis with Excel — Level 2: AI & Excel automation

3 intensive days

Confident Excel users ready to move on to automation.

Civic education and public services

Short modules

Citizens, young people, local communities

Business Intelligence with Power BI — Level 1: Business Intelligence

5 intensive days

Analysts, management controllers, decision-makers and reporting teams.

Business Intelligence with Power BI — Level 2: Enterprise BI & AI

3 intensive days

BI and data teams rolling out across a whole organisation.

Data and AI capacity building

Tailored format

Businesses, NGOs, government bodies, universities and development programmes

Artificial Intelligence & Automation — Level 1: AI applied to your work

5 intensive days

Any professional — marketing, HR, legal, administration, management.

Artificial Intelligence & Automation — Level 2: Automation & agentic AI

3 intensive days

Professionals and teams automating complete processes.

Training details

The tool we have built

Education, employability and civic education

IA-ANATRA

Advanced structuring

Train, employ, re-employ — in the age of artificial intelligence.

A national adaptive learning platform and project. It covers basic education, lower and upper secondary school, entry and return to employment, continuing education and support for teachers. It also carries a civic education strand: rights and duties, administrative procedures, and local participation.

Documented capabilities

  • Learning paths adapted to each learner's profile, from basic education to continuing education
  • A teaching assistant grounded in the course materials: it cites its sources and refuses to invent
  • Civic education strand: rights, duties, public services and citizen participation
  • A route for the NGO's ambassadors to feed back needs from the field

Young people · Teachers · Professionals changing career · Citizens

Public and private decision support

IA-ANTOKA

Advanced structuring

Madagascar Data-Driven: decide on figures you can trace back to their source.

An adaptive decision-support platform and project. It puts data governance, dashboards and indicators to work so that public and private decisions are better informed, more responsible and more accountable.

Documented capabilities

  • Data governance and consolidation of sources
  • Dashboards and indicators for decision-makers
  • Traceable analysis: every published figure is tied back to its origin
  • Support for decision-makers and decision-support reporting

Public institutions · Regional authorities · NGOs · Businesses

Agriculture, livestock, fisheries and environment

IA-AVOTRA

MVP to consolidate

Connecting producers, markets and agricultural data.

A platform and project dedicated to agricultural supply chains, livestock, fisheries and the environment. At MVP stage: it needs technical and financial partners to consolidate its features and test its uses in the field.

Documented capabilities

  • Support for agricultural supply chains, livestock and fisheries
  • Connecting producers with buyers
  • Putting field data to work for the supply chains

Producers · Exporters · Agricultural public services

Community health

I-TOMADY

MVP to consolidate

Community health equipped with data, right to the last mile.

A platform and project supporting community health. At MVP stage: consolidating it requires health partners, validation in the field and data protocols agreed with them.

Documented capabilities

  • Community monitoring and health alerts
  • Maternal and newborn health, vaccination, nutrition
  • Support for monitoring malaria and communicable diseases
  • Telemedicine and support for community health workers

Community health workers · Health centres · Pregnant women and children · Vulnerable communities

Build a partnership with the Academy

Deploying a platform, co-designing a training programme or strengthening your teams: we agree a scope, the outcomes expected and how progress is tracked.