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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Online Learning Africa: One kid, one computer - Belinda Anderson, Finweek
Imagine the benefits if every child had access to a computer connected to the Internet? Imagine the long-term benefits to South Africa's economy if every school-going child had access to a computer connected to the Internet? To establish a PC/Internet infrastructure throughout Africa would cost US$240bn (around R1,8 trillion) and take 10 years, Ernst & Young consultant Neil Butcher said at the recent Nepad e-Schools Conference (as reported by ITWeb). The Nepad initiative aims to put the broad principles in place and urge national governments to develop their own e-Schools business plans by 2010. It hopes to transform all secondary schools in participating countries - there were 16 to start with - into Nepad e-Schools by 2015. That's clearly a mammoth task and one that would require different and unique models for each country.
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