Tech innovators take leading roles in pandemic

In Kenya, Eneza Education has partnered with Safaricom to deliver free learning materials by even the simplest of mobile phones.

And in Liberia and Sierra Leone, where schools closed for months during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, there has been a swift return to radio

Rising Academies have also put their scripts online under a creative commons license. In just a week, they have had interest in the materials from across 10 different countries, mostly in Africa but some in South Asia.