E-Mentoring Platforms: Leveraging Technology to Deliver Mentoring Solutions for Youth

This Knowledge Brief focuses on platforms that have leveraged novel digital technologies to deliver location-agnostic mentoring solutions to youth. It explores six key operational areas where innovations have helped make e-mentoring processes more effective and efficient 1) Recruitment of mentors and mentees using online marketing strategies, 2) Screening potential mentors and mentees through algorithms that match key pre-set criteria. 3) Using blockchain technology and artificial intelligence to make the best possible mentor-mentee matches. 4) Conducting mentoring by bringing together mentors and mentees on virtual meetup platforms, 5) Providing ongoing support, supervision, and monitoring through a library of online resources, ensuring a member of the senior team is available for answering questions virtually and setting parameters and milestones that need to be met through the process, 6) Ensuring an appropriate closure of the mentor-mentee relationship by addressing challenges faced during the program and providing recognition to outstanding mentoring achievements.