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Making it Work: Rugged Tablets for African Schools

Published: Oct. 4, 2017, 3 a.m.

2/4 A Kenyan company is planning to bring reliable stable internet and rugged tablets to remote schools with the help of BRCK, a solution to internet problems in the shape of a brick. Part two of four. \n \nIn the northern Indian state of Assam, people have the lowest access to good quality eye care in the whole of India \u2013 18% of all cataracts happen in this one state. ERC Eyecare has a business solution aimed at changing all that.\n \nWe also return to visit the stethoscope creators from last week\u2019s episode. Things have moved on for the company Taal and it is now trying to drum up business \u2013 how are sales going?

(Photo: Boy looks up from a Kio Kit tablet used in a school in Kenya)