IT in school is not a luxury.

KUBO is a computer lab, an offline server and a school platform, built for schools with unreliable power and little internet. Running in five schools since 2017, from about €370 for a first step.

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In daily use in pilot schools since 2017, and now opening to schools worldwide. A project of Afrodidact, with The Swallow as innovation hub.

What computers unlock at a school

The computers are the means:

Skills

Skills for work and life

From the first mouse click to typing, documents and research: skills now as basic as reading and writing.

Library

More than any school could buy

Wikipedia, Khan Academy, CK-12, storybooks and science simulations, offline at every seat: more than any book budget could buy.

STEM

Hands-on coding and science

Scratch, Python, math games and simulations: STEM that pupils practice instead of only hear about.

Teachers

More time, more insight

Registers, scores and reports move off paper: hours back for teaching, decisions built on records.

One integrated system, three parts

Those four things run on three parts that work as one: each useful on its own, strongest together, all open source and in classrooms today. It arrives prepared, the school's own team runs it, and we stay available for years.

IT Lab

A computer for every student. Low-power workstations tough enough for daily classroom use, at a price schools can carry.

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Offline Server

The heart of the system. One small server hosts a library of learning content, runs the school platform and keeps everything backed up, all without internet.

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School Platform

The software that runs the school. Grades, term reports, timetables and health records in one place, with a login for staff and students.

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Soon Coming next: open learning resources and community courses beyond the school walls. The KUBO shop already shows its launch prices.

Open until the mold is funded

Help us unlock KUBO for every school

We went from one school to five pilot schools across two countries. KUBO is proven, and many more schools want it.

One piece is missing. Every KUBO X, the protected workstation at each seat of a lab, still gets its case 3D-printed one at a time. The fix is a one-time investment: an injection mold, a steel form that works a bit like a waffle iron.

Today 3D-printed, about €60 per case One mold €5,000, one time From then on pressed in seconds, an estimated ten times cheaper
Unlocking KUBO for every school…€1,725 of €5,000 · 35%
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Donations run through Afrodidact, the nonprofit behind KUBO. Belgian donors, individuals and companies alike, receive a tax certificate for gifts of €40 or more, and companies can request an invoice when donating. If the campaign raises more than the mold needs, the surplus goes into the next production steps, starting with the packaging.

A closer look

The school platform in action

The software that runs the whole school, built on the same standards as modern web applications but served offline from the local server. Grades, timetables, health records and more.

The KUBO school platform dashboard
The KUBO platform dashboard on a phone
Five of the many features, on whatever device the school has. Explore the platform →
Why we do this

In the countries the UN classifies as least developed, less than one third of primary schools have any digital tools. Students grow up without the digital skills today's world asks of them, and the school itself still runs on paper: hours of handwork for teachers, records easily lost, little insight to act on. Source: UN SDG Report, 2025iUN Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025, Goal 4: in the least developed countries, over two thirds of primary schools lack digital tools, and more than half lack electricity. Worldwide, fewer than half of all schools have computers or internet.

We exist to make computer systems attainable for schools worldwide: open, affordable IT built for exactly these conditions, running on little power and no internet, with computers for every student, educational content and a platform to run the school. You can get it too.

A local technician setting up a KUBO X workstation

Owned by your school, backed by support

KUBO's hardware and software are open, so your school owns its lab outright: the computers, the data and everything that runs on them. No licence fees, no vendor lock-in: yours to keep, repair and extend on your own terms.

We train your staff to run it, because a lab should not depend on us to keep going. When you do want help, it is there: local experts on the ground, and our international team keeping your data backed up and recoverable.

Your staff trained Local experts International team
The computer lab at The Swallow, The Gambia
Proven in the field

Running in schools since 2017

From the first lab at The Swallow, KUBO has grown to schools across The Gambia and Uganda, in daily use in the classroom and, because KUBO fits how the schools already work, increasingly in the school office too.

5 schools
2 countries
154 KUBO X computers
2017 first lab

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Where it comes from

Grown from our own needs

KUBO started in 2017 at The Swallow, our partner school in The Gambia. We built around its constraints: a tight budget, few IT skills, the cost of power, the load of running a school on paper. Year by year we built what worked and dropped what didn't.

The result is more than technology: an integrated method where the lab, the platform and the classroom work as one, part of the wider way we teach. Afrodidact funds its development and the pilots, and together we are proving it, now in five schools across The Gambia and Uganda, with more on the way.

Afrodidact The Swallow
Start planning today

Bring KUBO into your school

Every school starts from something different. We'll help you plan a lab that fits your budget and your space, and planning starts today. Delivery depends on where your school is: we are opening up worldwide step by step, responsibly, and your intake gives you an honest timeline before you commit.

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