Cheerful: A Light House Grace academy pupil using the Kio tablet created by BRCK Education during class in Kawangware, Nairobi.
NAIROBI: At the Lighthouse Grace Academy in Nairobi’s downmarket Kwangware suburb, yellow school T-shirts carry the slogan ’To Fear God is Wisdom’, but in their hands pupils clutch a more worldly path to knowledge: tablet computers.
The hand-sized tablets are part of the ‘Kio Kit’, a digital classroom in a suitcase designed by local technology company BRCK, which two years ago launched the hard-wearing, brick-sized modem that works as a WiFi hotspot.
