Tespack Solar Media Bag

By Mario Aguilera

Access to energy remains as one of the major challenges worldwide with over 1 billion people still out of electricity. This lack of access to affordable, clean energy acts as one of the main challenges and constraints in providing better access to education and in general to overall development and well-being of a country and its people.

Education in rural areas is the most affected area for developing countries as education is always behind in regards to current events and science advancements (information can go outdated and evolve every day with the advancement of science). These discoveries are always first online, which is one of the reasons why we believe that the flow of education and data needs to be digitized in order to be shared and taught.

Rural teachers are still relying solely on books in order to teach and also to base their teaching methods on traditional approaches of the past.

Finland has the most advanced curriculum of education and methodology in the world. And it relies on a combination of methods that go from traditional approaches to the most recent that are very dependent on audiovisual technology.

Finland has been able to export most of its methods but most of them are audiovisual and require energy and also visual aids and speakers. The good news is that…