children
Our partner organisations deliver onecourse directly into the hands of children around the world.
BEFIT
- Government of Malawi
- Imagine Worldwide
onebillion has been working in Malawi since the early 2000s. We developed our onecourse software into Chichewa first, before localising into English, Swahili, French and other languages. onebillion was incorporated into the Malawi National Education Sector Plan in 2008 and is now being rolled out to all 5000+ primary schools through the government-owned programme ‘Building Education Foundations through Innovation & Technology’ (BEFIT). onebillion has appointed Imagine Worldwide as its exclusive software distributor in Malawi.
Kenya
- EIDU
EIDU delivers onecourse through low-cost, school-based interventions to both pre-primary and primary school children. EIDU has support from all 47 Kenyan counties and is working on a nationwide roll-out with the Kenyan government over the next few years.
Unlocking Talent
- VSO Malawi
- UNICEF
- Comic Relief
- DFID
- Royal Norwegian Embassy
- KfW
- MoEST Malawi
- Airtel
- Cisco
One successful trial project in 2013 led to a nationwide educational initiative in Malawi, called Unlocking Talent. The initiative was institutionalised in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology’s ‘Digital Education Technology Agenda’, and significantly informed the current "BEFIT' programme which is bringing onetab to every primary school across Malawi.
South Africa
- iSchool Africa
iSchool Africa, together with the Department for Rural Development and corporate partners, have implemented the Unlocking Talent approach to more than 130 schools across South Africa. Each of the participating schools has adapted the approach to suit their specific local needs. For example, while some schools use our numeracy material to help smooth the transition between Afrikaans and English, others give children access to the software to allow them to catch up on the basic maths skills needed to progress.
Sierra Leone
- Imagine Worldwide
Following several onetab pilots in Sierra Leone, the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education is now scaling onetab to every primary school in the country under the Pikin Tab programme. Supported by Imagine Worldwide - onebillion's exclusive onetab distributor in Sierra Leone - and a consortium of partners, the Pikin Tab programme serves children in primary school years 1 to 4.
Ghana
- Imagine Worldwide
Beginning with a pilot of 4 schools, Imagine Worldwide and partner Afrikids are now working in 15 schools in Ghana with onetabs for children in grades 1-4.
Liberia
- Imagine Worldwide
Since September 2022, Imagine Worldwide have been working with Rising Academy Network to implement onetabs in government primary schools in Liberia.
Burkina Faso
- Imagine Worldwide
In Burkina Faso, onetab is used in a hybrid model (both in schools and communities) to enable children to continue learning despite disruptions to schooling. Imagine Worldwide, working with Catholic Relief Services, plan to scale to 7,500 grades 1-3 children across the next three years.
Dzaleka Refugee Camp
- Imagine Worldwide
In Dzaleka refugee camp in Malawi, there are currently 7 refugee-led organisations which implement onetab. The focus is on Standards 1-4, but our RLO partners have maximised tablet usage and the wider impact in the community by running additional sessions with kindergarten children, out-of-school youth and host community schools. We have also run co-creation workshops, facilitated by Imagine Worldwide, with children in Dzaleka to develop new storybooks for onelibrary, to ensure children hear their own voices in the books they read.
United Kingdom
- Education Endowment Foundation
- University of Oxford
- University of Nottingham
A study funded by the Education Endowment Foundation found that Year 1 children using the maths apps across schools in England made – on average – an increase of three months’ progress compared to control groups. The children used our numeracy software for 30 minutes per day, 4 days a week, for 12 weeks. The children were assisted by teaching assistants trained by the University of Nottingham. Independent researchers from the University of Oxford monitored and evaluated learning outcomes.
Senegal
- Imagine Worldwide
Imagine Worldwide, in partnership with Counterpart International, are implementing onetab in 75 schools over the next 4 years, as part of the McGovern-Dole Food for Education Program.
Jamaica
- PACE Canada
In 2021 Project for the Advancement of Childhood Education (PACE) Canada donated 1,000 onetabs to the Minister of Education in Jamaica. An Additional 1,500 onetabs were donated in 2025. The onetabs have been distributed to 500 kindergarten schools across the island. The aim is to bridge the digital divide and empower children with the tools necessary for their educational journey.
Uganda
- Hello World
onetabs are being used by families in Kampala to boost numeracy and literacy outcomes.
Our partner Hello World works with communities in Uganda, Nigeria and Nepal to build solar-powered internet Hubs. In their ‘Hub Heroes’ project, 100 onetabs have been delivered to 100 families for younger children to learn to read and do maths, in English. Mothers act as onetab custodians – ensuring their children share the tablet each day and charging it at the community Hub, where they can catch up with other parents on their children’s progress.
India
- Barefoot College
Two young engineers, Kirubhagar and Harsh Tiwari, partnered with Barefoot College to manufacture their own solar-powered projector based on our prototype design. The projector is used to display our learning material from iPads, in the local night school where there is no electricity. Both attendance and children’s learning outcomes has increased since the projector’s implementation.
Uganda
- Haileybury Youth Trust
UK charity Haileybury Youth Trust constructed a oneclass learning centre for Nabirama Primary School in the Jinja district of Uganda. Children at Nabirama now learn using our numeracy material in a safe and clean environment. The oneclass building is made entirely from environmentally friendly Interlocking Stabilised Soil Bricks (ISSB). Under the Unlocking Talent initiative, this construction technique has been exchanged and shared to be used to build learning centres in Malawi as well.
Global Learning XPRIZE
- XPRIZE Foundation
- UNESCO
- WFP
Team onebillion was announced joint winner of the $15M Global Learning XPRIZE competition. Our onecourse software was evaluated in a 15-month randomised control trial, monitored by UNESCO and the World Food Programme, in which approximately 4,000 children across 150 rural villages used one of the five finalists’ software through tablets donated by Google, with data evaluated by RTI International.
Ethiopia
- VSO Ethiopia
In Dubti and Samara, two towns in the Afar-speaking region of Ethiopia, primary school children are taking their first steps to becoming numerate. Using onebillion maths apps, the children spend time learning maths concepts in their own language, with support from their teachers and teaching assistants.
Brazil
- University of Nottingham
Kindergarten children at a bilingual school in Recife, Brazil used Maths, age 3-5 and Maths, age 4-6 in both English and Brazilian Portuguese. During a 10-week research project monitored by the University of Nottingham, children were tested pre- and post-intervention to evaluate the impact of the software on children’s learning outcomes.
Mozambique
- VSO Mozambique
In 2021 onebillion partnered with VSO Mozambique under the EAGLE programme, funded by GAC Canada, to bring onecourse to out-of-school teenage girls in the Manica and Sofala provinces.
USA
- Open Up Resources
onebillion is partnered with the non-profit Open Up Resources to distribute onetabs to schools and individuals in the USA, with a particular focus on enabling those without internet or devices at home to access onetab.
MsingiTek
- Imagine Worldwide
onetab is being implemented across 5 regions in mainland Tanzania and the whole of Zanzibar through MsingiTek, a government-led programme supported by Imagine Worldwide, onebillion and a consortium of implementation partners and funders. MsingiTek will serve 879,900 children from grades 1-3 across 2933 schools by 2030.