The Technology In Education Society (TIES) is a Canadian registered charity devoted to advancing the education of students in developing countries. We donate computers, tablets, and related, innovative technology, and we also have scholarship programs.

Viaduct Technology In Education Society (TIES) is a non-profit society under the Societies Act of British Columbia, Canada. We are a registered charity; our Canada Revenue Agency charity Registration Number is 726245137RR0001.

The charitable purpose of our Society is the advancement of education. The specific purposes from our Constitution define how we carry out our mission:

• To advance education by providing charitable gifts of computers, tablets, and other educational aids to students attending schools in the least developed countries of the world.
• To advance education by granting publicly available scholarships, bursaries, and other forms of financial assistance to secondary school and post-secondary school students in the least developed countries of the world.

Our projects and programs fall into two broad areas in keeping with our purposes.

As our name would suggest, one of the main activities of our Society is the donation of innovative technology to education projects in developing countries. Not just computers and tablets, but game changing tech such as the RACHEL from World Possible. RACHEL stands for Remote Area Community Hotspot for Education and Learning. With this small, battery powered device education resources from the internet can be delivered to communities without internet access, in fact even without grid electricity! These plug-and-play hotspots are preloaded with content such as Wikipedia, Khan Academy, and CK12 textbooks, and can be completely customized with user content too. RACHELs have been deployed in over 50 countries.

Our other main activity is providing scholarships and bursaries to high school and university students in several developing countries.