Surtab’s Made-in-Haiti touchscreen tablets may help blaze a trail back to electronics manufacturing in the country
Marise Fils-Aimé sits at a work table in a brightly-lit, air-conditioned room with hardly a speck of dust to be found. She’s wearing white-coveralls over her clothes, a hairnet, and light-blue booties that cover her Crocs. In front of her lay a pair of wire clippers, a roll of tape, a small electric soldering iron, a glue gun, and a blue tub that contains the plastic parts and electronic components required to assemble a 7-inch touchscreen tablet, which no company has produced in Haiti before.
“I’ve never used a tablet,” Fils-Aimé says. “I think all Haitians would like to have one.”
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