RACHEL

Target SDGs

Market Suggested Retail Price

$749.00

Target Users (Target Impact Group)

Household, Community

Distributors / Implementing Organizations

World Possible.

Competitive Landscape

Direct competitors include Kiwix and Internet-in-a-box.

Regions

Worldwide

Manufacturing/Building Method

RACHEL Content Library is developed mainly with Shell, PHP and Perl.

The RACHEL-Pi is based on the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.

Intellectural Property Type

Open-source

User Provision Model

RACHEL Content Library is provided through their GitHub site and FTP site.

RACHEL Hardware can be purchased through the project's web page.

Distributions to Date Status

Rachel is used by hundreds of partner organizations in over 40 countries worldwide

Design Specifications

RACHEL-Corrections 3.0

- Required skills: None

- Number of simultaneous users: 20-50

- Supported content storage: 500GB HDD

RACHEL-Plus

- Required skills: None

- Number of simultaneous users: 10-50

- Supported content storage: 500GB HDD

RACHEL-Pi

- Required skills: SSH or linux command line for safe shutdown (recommended)

- Number of simultaneous users: 1-10

- Supported content storage: 64GB

Technical Support

There is an open community for support and a side community called RACHEL Friends that aims to improve, expand, spread, and document RACHEL, the best ways use it, and experiences deploying it.

Replacement Components

For RACHEL Content Library it does not apply.

For RACHEL Hardware there are differentiated policies for every product.

Lifecycle

For RACHEL Content Library it does not apply.

For RACHEL Hardware this is unknown.

Manufacturer Specified Performance Parameters

• Easy to build
• Easy to use: Turn it on and connect to "RACHEL" as you would any wifi network. Open a web browser and type the web address (a number listed on the front sticker of your RACHEL). Once you're connected to RACHEL, you can instantly access offline versions of the world's best free educational websites including Wikipedia, Khan Academy, and over 100 more.

Vetted Performance Status

Results of an independent evaluation of the Sergio Paiz Andrade Foundation’s (Funsepa) pilot program in Sacatepéquez presented in this report. The pilot aimed to take an innovative approach to Funsepa’s traditional programming and enhance student academic performance in mathematics. The results show that consistently, students with access to e-education resources scored more than 10% that their control group counterpart. An independent evaluation of The Samuel Morris Scholar’s Pilot Program initiated by Innovative Education Liberia (IEL) in a remote, rural county of Liberia during the 2015-2016 academic year show that, relative to the comparison group, the pilot intervention leads to an average increase of 10 points in math scores, out of a maximum possible score of 100 points, which is double the increase of five points produced by Funsepa’s traditional program.

Safety

N/A

Complementary Technical Systems

None.

Academic Research and References

Compliance with regulations

Yes. All content available within RACHEL solution is open source and can be freely share everywhere.

Evaluation methods

For verification of proper hardware and software installation, an operation test on connectivity and data accessibility must be performed.

Other Information

There are video-tutorials on the Jeremy Schwartz YouTube Channel.