The open IT suite designed to run in every school.

One complete system: a resilient IT lab, an offline server and an intuitive school platform, working together seamlessly even where budgets are tight, power is unreliable and the internet barely reaches.

Battle-tested in pilot schools since 2017, and now opening to schools worldwide. A collaboration between Afrodidact and The Swallow.

Launch campaign

Help us unlock KUBO for every school

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

One piece is missing. Every workstation's KUBO X casing is still 3D-printed, one at a time, too slow and too costly to go beyond the pilots. An injection mold changes that: produced in series, every casing becomes an estimated ten times cheaper.

The mold is a one-time investment of €5,000, and every contribution moves the bar. This is where you become a change maker: the mold you fund makes KUBO affordable enough for every school.

Unlocking KUBO for every school…
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Donations run through Afrodidact, the nonprofit behind KUBO.

One integrated system, three parts

KUBO is designed for schools where budgets are tight, power is unreliable and the internet barely reaches. It comes as three parts, each useful on its own and strongest together, all open source and running in classrooms today. We install it, train the school's team, and stay around to keep it running 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.

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 challenge that with open, affordable IT built for exactly these conditions, running on little power and no internet: computers for every student, educational content and a platform to run the school. You can get it too.

What changes for a school

KUBO is not computers for their own sake. Each part exists for the difference it makes in the classroom and the staff room.

Digital literacy

Skills for work and life

Pupils grow from their first mouse click to documents, research and safe computer habits, on the same files-and-folders desktop they will meet anywhere.

STEM

Hands-on coding and science

With Scratch and Python, math and typing games, and science simulations, STEM becomes something pupils practice instead of only hear about.

Time back

Teachers save 5+ hours every month

Registers, scores and term reports move from handwork to the platform, giving teachers hours back for actual teaching.

Insight

Decisions built on records

Attendance, results and health records stay safe and searchable, so the school sees each child's path and acts on facts instead of memory.

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 machines, 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
150+ KUBO X installed
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
Ready when you are

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: first deliveries follow as the mold unlocks series production.

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