The Raspberry Pi is an essential component within education for a digital economy:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/09/08/why-a-slice-of-raspberry-pi-is-good-for-britains-digital-economy/
With more than 10 million units sold in 4.5 years, a great supporting community, and it's own magazine "The MagPi" in english and since a few days also in german it is valuable factor in learning the skills for a digital economy and the basis for projects defining digitalization.
The british Raspberry Pi Foundation is the driving force behind all this, more information on their website raspberrypi.org.
