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Bringing Digital Learning into Any Classroom

The Kio Kit is a ready-to-use box of di­gital edu­ca­tion tools de­signed for schools in low-in­come com­munit­ies in primar­ily emer­ging mar­kets. The kits come packed with 40 Kio tablets, preloaded with engaging educational content di­vided into three key sec­tions: aca­demic con­tent aligned to local cur­riculum, games that stim­u­late crit­ical think­ing, and con­tent fo­cused on re­spons­ible cit­izen­ship and en­vir­on­mental con­ser­va­tion.

Along with the tab­lets, the Kio Kit in­cludes a BRCK wire­less router de­signed for mo­bile use even with spotty elec­tri­city and In­ter­net ac­cess, solar charging capabilities, and a lock­able case. De­signed to be user friendly, par­tic­u­larly for chil­dren, BRCK tab­lets do not re­quire in­di­vidual cables for char­ging. In­stead, they are simply placed back into the Kio Kit, which charges them wire­lessly. With fin­an­cing, the Kio Kit can be pur­chased for as little as $250 per month. After launch­ing in late 2015, Kio Kits have already been de­ployed in six coun­tries.

RELEVANCE OF SOLUTION
Sixty-one mil­lion African chil­dren lack ac­cess to qual­ity edu­ca­tion.1 The reas­ons are man­i­fold, such as lack of learn­ing ma­ter­i­als or qual­i­fied teach­ers.2 Provid­ing chil­dren from low-in­come com­munit­ies with the Kio Kit ad­dresses these is­sues and en­ables stu­dents to use ICT to ac­cess learn­ing op­por­tun­it­ies.

TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE:

ENVIRONMENTAL
The BRCK wi-fi device that comes stand­ard in every Kio Kit has bat­tery ca­pa­city to power the Kit’s tab­lets for 8 hours and can be re­charged via dir­ect solar char­ging.

SOCIAL
The solu­tion makes di­gital qual­ity edu­ca­tion ac­cess­ible to stu­dents from low-in­come com­munit­ies.

ECONOMIC
The Kio Kit can help edu­cate low-in­come groups to en­able so­cioeco­nomic growth.