We’re continuing to grow at BRCK, and have a lot of things going on now, from our normal BRCK connectivity device, to education with our Kio Kit and have started doing some interesting sensor-connectivity as well.

With all this going on, we thought it might be good to have a monthly “chat” with key people in the organization where you can ask questions and get some answers.  Our idea right now is to target these conversations on Twitter around specific topics.

This Twitter chat will be hosted every last Thursday of each month at 3:00pm EAT for an hour.

You will pose questions with the hashtag #AskBRCK and our CEO will respond to them.

Do you have that burning question that you’ve always wanted to ask us? Use the hashtag #AskBRCK on the 28th of April from 3-4pm Kenya time and our CEO Erik Hersman will respond to it.

The year has started off with a bang here at BRCK! We have shipped Kio Kits to a school project in Tanzania, and just yesterday we spent  the day at the Kenya National Library in Thika Town. A big part of why we built the Kio Kit is to easily and cheaply augment already existing learning materials, books mainly, with up-to-date, relevant and engaging text, audio, and video content.

Our focus was mostly on the text part of the Kio Kit’s content, especially as we were in a quiet library setting with children reading books around us.  We have plans to add audio books to the Kio Kit so that book enthusiasts can listen to books as well as read them.  The Kio Kit can play audio and video using the in-kit earphones for each tablet, thus preventing a class (or library) from becoming chaotic when videos are being watched.  The reception was very encouraging and we are excited and look forward to working with more libraries, and schools, in the coming months!

Here are some photos from our excursion: