Category Archives: BRCK Education
Eating our Own Dogfood on BRCK Expeditions
November 15th, 2017 by Erik Hersman
This last week I was part of a BRCK expedition team that traveled from Nairobi through the Chyulu Hills, and oversea to the small island of Pemba in the northern part of Zanzibar. On the way, we installed some of our equipment, including: A point-to-point link running Moja WiFi, providing free internet access for Kenya […]
Read moreA Breathe of Fresh Air
March 7th, 2017 by Sheila Zubeda
Being my first time to travel to Samburu, I found it quite exciting getting ready for the trip. We left for Kiltamani Primary School with a fellowship of five: Robert, Eduardo, Sheila, Duncan and I. The Kalama Conservancy is about 400 kilometers away from Nairobi therefore the long journey was expected. Our windows are rolled […]
Read moreBRCK Wins at the Aegis Graham Bell Awards
February 14th, 2017 by Alex Masika
The Aegis Graham Bell awards was established by the Aegis school of Telecom Data and Science as a tribute to the late father of Telephony, Sir Alexander Graham Bell. The award’s mission is to recognize outstanding innovations and entrepreneurship in the fields of Telecom, Social, Mobility, Analytics, Cloud, and Security. This year’s awards ceremony was […]
Read moreKio Kit in Kakuma
January 20th, 2017 by Elizabeth Gikebe
We board flight UNO 405H at 0730 hrs from Wilson Airport and 1hr 45 mins later, we are at Kakuma Town in Turkana County. Have you ever seen photos of Turkana people? Most of the photos show a bunch of men and women, boys and girls, young and old Turkana people with short, thick and […]
Read more2016: The Year at BRCK
January 2nd, 2017 by Erik Hersman
2016 proved to be a busy year at BRCK, after we announced our funding round. We started off by getting into our new office, upgrading from the small room we’d used for the previous two years. There was a blur of events, with some of us speaking at WEF, TED, ITU, and many others. A […]
Read moreOne year later, a look at our first Kio Kit customers
November 11th, 2016 by Barbara Muriungi
The first Kio Kit customers Last year when we launched our ruggedised Kio Kit, what followed was a ton of interested buyers. It gave us both huge hope and nerves that our product was going to schools. Prior to launch, we had piloted the Kio Kit in some schools and that gave us a lot […]
Read moreIt Takes a Village: The Importance of Metis for Metrics
September 13th, 2016 by Nivi Sharma
A question we get asked often at BRCK Education is about data supporting the effectiveness of our work. Potential customers, donors and investors want to know what metrics we use and have to verify that the Kio Kit improves learning outcomes. The truth is that the Kio Kit doesn’t have any impact on learning. The […]
Read moreBeyond the Technology There’s Always a Community
September 13th, 2016 by Edoardo Biraghi
We started early in the morning on the third day at Kiltamany and we were all late. As soon as we arrived at school, we started the meeting with the teachers and tried to get a picture of their challenges: what you do like, why you decided to be a teacher, what you don’t like, […]
Read moreOpportunities Change Minds
September 13th, 2016 by Larissa Harari
Kiltamany is composed of 10 villages surrounding the Samburu National Park. They are far away from the city, in some kind of deserted landscape, with no piped water and no electricity. Kiltamany Primary School is the only school for the whole community, with around 200 students, scarce chalk and studying materials. Sylvester, a Samburu Junaenda […]
Read moreUNICEF & BRCK Kio Kit Deployment in Malawi
June 23rd, 2016 by Alex Masika
On a chilly but warm Monday morning of June 20th 2016, Rene John Dierkx and I embarked on a 4 hour road trip from Lilongwe to Blantyre to deploy a Kio Kit purchased for Noacha Full Primary school by UNICEF. Rene is an Education specialist and Architect at UNICEF who has worked in Africa for […]
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