The Ground Floor
We entered the Somali educational sector over two decades ago. At that time, every student record, fee receipt, and exam mark was written by hand. It was an era of dedication, but extreme inefficiency.
The story of Dugsikaab isn't a tech story—it's a classroom story. It started with a pen, a paper, and a vision for change.
We entered the Somali educational sector over two decades ago. At that time, every student record, fee receipt, and exam mark was written by hand. It was an era of dedication, but extreme inefficiency.
Like most admins, we moved to Excel and Word. Soon, we were drowning in hundreds of disconnected files. One typo in a student's name meant a billing disaster. We realized that spreadsheets aren't built to run schools; they are built to crunch numbers.
We tried existing educational systems, but none fit the Somali context. They were unaware of the importance of families and relatives in our society or how to deal with relatives' billing in households when they have a single guardian. We weren't looking for a software; we were looking for a partner.
Dugsikaab was built to solve our own problems first. We designed it from the ground up to be Family-Centric. We took 14 years of frustration and turned it into the most modern system tool for Somali schools.
"We didn't build Dugsikaab to be just another database. We built it to support the arch of Somali education—to lift the burden off admins & teachers so they can focus on what matters: the students."