Hello Hubs are innovative, scalable and affordable. Designed to be easily replicated and entirely built by the community.
Each Hello Hub provides five interrelated elements designed to bring communities online and provide access to world-class education, power and connection.
Meet the Hello Hubs...
Robust and modern hardware
8 rugged tablets and Hub infrastructure
World-class educational software
in local languages for the whole community
Free Internet
empowering knowledge, connection and communication
Engineering training
enabling communities to build, maintain and replicate Hubs
Solar power
often a community’s only power source
Core Programmes
Hello World establishes three core programmes at every Hub to increase the value and accessibility of the Hub in the community.
Built by the community, for the community.
We don’t build these Hubs. The communities do. Challenging traditional approaches to development, they learn to build, maintain and repair the Hubs themselves, becoming engineers who can go on to build future Hubs.
It’s a self-sustaining model that relies on mutual investment and radically challenges traditional thinking about development.
How the Hubs Work:
Each Hello Hub offers: eight screens, educational software, free high-speed WiFi, device charging, lighting and solar power.
The Story of Hello World
Hello World is born
In 2012 Katrin came across Sugata Mitra's TED talk on the power of child-initiated and child-led learning. She decided that a similar approach to his 'hole-in-the-wall' computers might be one way of remedying the lack of education suffered by many children in emerging economies. The concept of Hello World was born. Sugata became an advisor and valued colleague.
The Story of Hello World
Hello Nigeria, and Uganda!
Years of trial and error followed but, eventually, a workable Hello Hub design and a community-focussed plan meant that the first prototypes were launched in late 2013 in Nigeria and in 2015 in Uganda. At every stage communities were fully involved in the process, and ownership, of the hubs, and were responsible for their upkeep, with ongoing support from Hello World. This model has been a central precept of Hello World's philosophy: to empower communities and encourage autonomy.
The Story of Hello World
Introducing the
Hello World Dome
We spent 2018 back in the Lab with our partners from Avenues World School and the Tiger Works team from NASA. We needed an improved Hub design that was cheaper, easier to transport to the more remote places, possible for even the littlest community members to build, had more screens, was dust and monsoon proof, a good sunshade, and (we hoped) iconic. And so the Hello Dome was born!
The Story of Hello World
abrdn announces partnership with
Hello World
Since those early days Hello World has gone from strength to strength, supported by generous donors and the enthusiasm of communities and we expanded to Nepal in 2019. Then in 2020 abrdn became Hello Worlds first £1m donor funding 64 Hubs in Uganda and much more.
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