Our Mission & Ambition

Our story

In 1977, David Werner published Where There Is No Doctor — a health manual written in plain language for communities with no access to medical professionals. That one book has since been translated into 85+ languages and reached 221 countries. It proved something radical: that knowledge, written clearly and shared freely, can save lives.

David Werner is our inspiration. He showed that one person with the right idea can change how millions of people access knowledge. We want to carry that forward — with digital tools.

EdTechie Corp started with a conviction: that technology can augment our capacity to learn, just as it augments every other human capacity. We convert freely available health guides — including Where There Is No Doctor, Where There Is No Dentist, and Where Women Have No Doctor — into structured, interactive eLearning modules.

These modules are deployed offline inside KnowledgeBox — a Raspberry Pi device running Kolibri — and distributed to NGOs, community health workers, and rural clinics. No internet required. No cost to the community. Just knowledge.

We are at the very beginning. But even reaching a fraction of what David Werner achieved — a handful of communities, a few hundred learners, one clinic that had nothing and now has a library — that would already be more than a goal. That would be proof that the model works.

Starting local, thinking global

Our first KnowledgeBox deployments will target underserved communities in Morocco — rural clinics, community centres, and schools without reliable internet access.

From there, we want to expand across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond — wherever communities are cut off from the digital revolution. Each KnowledgeBox contains Wikipedia, health guides, and interactive eLearning content. No internet. No subscription. Just knowledge.

Our mission

Drop every obstacle that stands between people and learning. Locally in Morocco and abroad.

We use technology as a bridge — converting open-license health and education content into interactive eLearning, deploying it offline on pocket-sized devices, and putting it directly into the hands of communities that need it most.

Our values