Bulawayo Bureau
The Office of the President and Cabinet yesterday launched the Presidential National e-learning project and handed over 160 laptops to pupils and teachers at two schools in Matabeleland South.
So far, 60 schools have benefited countrywide from the new project, which is meant to facilitate the implementation of the national mordenisation agenda.

The programme was launched under the theme ‘Connect a school, connect a community project’. Handing over the laptops to Mzimuni Secondary and Primary Schools in Gwanda, the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Dr Misheck Sibanda, said the aim of the project was to sustain President Mugabe’s dream of making the country an information technology hub. He said since President Mugabe launched a programme to computerise schools in 2000, nearly 1000 rural schools had benefited.

“In 2 000 President Mugabe embarked on the Presidential national computerisation programme in the education sector. This marked the initial step towards transforming Zimbabwe’s education system by introducing information communication technology (ICT),” said Dr Sibanda.

“It is incumbent upon us, therefore to give an impetus to and sustain the future through practical actions, the President’s dream of making this nation an information technology hub. This ICT initiative has so far benefited nearly 1 000 rural schools countrywide”

Dr Sibanda said the new project, which also comes after the adoption of the Results Based Management (RBM) system by the government, is best expressed in the implementation of the e-government designed to make the country competitive locally and globally.

“The e-learning programme is intended to cover all schools in the country but due to financial limitations 30 primary and 30 secondary remote and disadvantaged schools were carefully selected by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education as beneficiaries in this initial stage,” said Dr Sibanda.

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