Why Students of Timor

Built here. For here. Free.

There are dozens of school management products. None of them speak Tetum first. None of them assume Dili traffic. None of them give the software away free.

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Five reasons

Why schools pick SoT



Built in Timor-Leste

Built in Timor-Leste

Our team is here. Tetum is a first-class language, not a translation layer.


Free forever

Free forever

Software is sponsored. Public schools never pay.


Two apps included

Two apps included

Parent + Teacher Android apps; works on cheap phones, light data.


NFC + QR keycards

NFC + QR keycards

One card does attendance, library, cafeteria, SOTcoin — $5.


MoE-aligned

MoE-aligned

Grade scales, term structure and reports match MoE expectations.


Privacy-first

Privacy-first

Encrypted at rest. Per-role access. Full audit log. GDPR-style consent and parent-controlled data export.



The straight comparison

What we do that others don't

Three honest differences from the global school-OS pack.



Tetum first

Every screen, notification and report shipped in Tetum on day one — not added as a bolt-on translation layer six months later.


Sponsored, not subsidised

The Of Timor group writes the engineering cheque. Schools never see a software invoice — there is no “free trial” that turns into a bill.


Built-in protections

Encryption everywhere, per-role access, full audit log. GDPR-style consent gives parents per-purpose toggles, export and delete requests. We never sell or share data.


Built for budget phones

The Parent app runs smoothly on $80 Android handsets and patchy 3G — because that’s what most Timorese parents actually use.



A laptop on a Dili workshop desk with the Timor-Leste outline

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modules
2
apps (Parent + Teacher)
$0
forever, for the software
100%
Tetum + English coverage
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See it on a real school day

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