Making it Work: Rugged Tablets for African Schools

We start in Kenya where science journalist Angela Saini meets a company planning to bring reliable stable internet and rugged tablets to remote schools with the help of BRCK, a tough solution to internet problems in the shape of a – guess what - brick. She visits a school in a slum near Dagoretti in Nairobi to see the system in action. In the northern Indian state of Assam, people have the least access to good quality eyecare in the whole of India – 18% of all cataracts happen in this one state. ERC Eyecare have a business solution aimed at changing all that. Finally, Angela returns to visit the stethoscope creators from last week’s programme. Things have moved on for the company Taal, and they are now trying to drum up business – how are sales going? Episode two of four. (Photo: Boy looks up from a Kio Kit tablet used in a school in Kenya)