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How the journey works
A short walkthrough of the four-stage journey, from self-assessment to introduction to financing partners.
The journey
Four stages, from idea to business
Each stage has its own audience, tools, and dedicated support. You enter at the level that matches your project.
Catalogue
Browse the courses
Every published course, filterable by stage.
Financial Inclusion in Practice
For agents, staff of banks and microfinance institutions, NGOs, students and trainers: measure financial inclusion, understand who is excluded, design suitable products, protect customers, run a financial-education session and track its results. Built from the National Financial Inclusion Strategy 2025-2030.
Included in membership
Fintech in the Comoros: from Landscape to Product
Understand how mobile money, payments, identity and digital credit work in the Comoros, then design a useful, compliant digital financial service. Figures and findings from the National Financial Inclusion Strategy 2025-2030.
Included in membership
Completing your business model: the five growth blocks
Your customer, value, price and margin hold. Now build the rest of the Business Model Canvas to grow: channels, customer relationships, key activities, resources and partners, each tested with numbers.
Included in membership
Robotics from Simulation to a Tested Robot
Build computational thinking, sensor interpretation and state-based behaviour before integrating low-voltage electronics. Fifteen two-hour sessions are grouped into six modules. Learners can complete a simulation route; the physical build is a separate supervised endorsement.
Included in membership
Blockchain and Digital Trust
Evaluate when a shared ledger helps, trace transactions and design a verifiable credential workflow. Build a local hash chain and an access-controlled registry model. This course teaches architecture and prototypes, not cryptocurrency trading.
Included in membership
Data Science for Practical Decisions
Move from a question to a reproducible analysis and a small predictive model. Learn data quality, descriptive statistics, SQL, visual reasoning, evaluation and responsible communication using a fictional delivery dataset.
Included in membership
Python and Computational Thinking
A foundation bridge for new coders. Turn a small problem into validated inputs, functions, loops and reproducible files using Python’s standard library.
Included in membership
Islamic Finance Practice
This Skills Library course helps entrepreneurs, students and professionals analyse Islamic-finance decisions. Work through the modules in order, read the two lessons, reproduce each calculation, complete the practical task and answer the quiz before consulting feedback. The programme is standalone and can support Education, Activation and Execution without becoming a compulsory stage course. Allow about 15 hours including exercises, the workshop and the 60-minute exam. No prior finance training is required; basic percentages are used.
Included in membership
Sectors
Eight opportunity sectors
Training, mentors and cohorts are organised around growth sectors — rooted in the Comorian economy and open to projects from anywhere.
Agriculture, vanilla & ylang-ylang
Cash crops, local processing and export channels.
Fisheries & blue economy
Artisanal fishing, cold chain and seafood value-add.
Tourism & hospitality
Lodging, guiding, ecotourism and diaspora hosting.
Trade & import-export
Distribution, regional sourcing and commercial logistics.
Digital services
Development, online services, mobile payment and data.
Crafts
Artisan trades, local products, sales to visitors and diaspora.
Transport & logistics
Passenger and freight transport, inter-island and urban.
Food service
Local cuisine, catering, quick service and events.
Other & cross-sector
Projects outside these sectors or spanning several of them.
Qualitative indications for your next project. More sectors will be added with our partners.
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Apprendre l'alphabet avec Sami et Julie (dès 3 ans)
Petite & Moyenne Section
2 500 KMF
Cahier d'écriture avec Sami et Julie (dès 3 ans)
Petite & Moyenne Section
2 500 KMF
J'apprends à lire (dès 5 ans)
Grande Section
4 250 KMF
Cahier de lecture (dès 5 ans)
Grande Section
3 500 KMF
Support
Mentors across the four islands
Trainers, mentors, and sector experts, mobilized based on your stage.
7
mentors on the platform
Islands served
Ranza Academy Team
Diaspora (Comorans abroad)
Abdoulhamid Ali
Boina Ali
Ngazidja
Faridi Ali
Services for entrepreneurs
What do you need?
Accredited providers, with verified rates and reviews.
No accredited provider yet.
What's on
Events, stories and news from Ranza Academy: what's coming, what we write, what happened.
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From fear to framework: applying human–AI co-agency across real-world sectors
Concern about AI is real but often diffuse. Four questions (initiative, decision scope, oversight and responsibility) turn it into clearer governance questions in education, government, work, healthcare and high-stakes institutions.
Mohamed Salim ALI Abdallah · August 22, 2026
Behind the paper: why I wrote From Assistants to Agents
Most of today’s AI debate swings between two pictures: AI as a tool, and AI as an autonomous actor. This research began from a different question: what happens when action is distributed across humans, AI systems and institutions?
Mohamed Salim ALI Abdallah · May 16, 2026
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