At Startup Weekend I attended in November, I connected with the founder of Neon King Kong, the company behind Chatfor10. The app aims to make it easier for refugees and people seeking asylum to practice communicating in a language they are learning. Chatfor10 is essentially a designed to facilitate English microlearning. Chatfor10 is getting a fair bit of traction and recognition, having been recently accepted into Impact Boom's Elevate+ Accelerator Program.

Right now the learners and volunteers are just using Whatsapp. But Whatsapp is a cumbersome, manually intensive to administer and restrictive. In other words, Chatfor10 needs to be its own app and that's where I come in.

I have joined the Chatfor10 development team to help develop the Neon King Kong platform, which has ambitions beyond Chatfor10, as well as the Chatfor10 microlearning app. The grand vision is that Chatfor10 will be the first learning app off the Neon King Kong assembly line. If it is successful, other apps will be added to both support Chatfor10 and expand the learning services offered by Neon Kong Kong. For me personally, I am approaching this as a learning opportunity. I am looking forward to the challenge involved with being part of the Neon King Kong development team!