Mascom empowers Chobokwane with ICT skills

| Monday September 8, 2014 12:52

 

The computers are expected to encourage the use of technology and give Chobokwane Primary School students and teachers the opportunity to be more independent and productive in their work.

Mascom views this donation as a tool to promote computer literacy among children from a young age and also assist Botswana in achieving the ideals of vision 2016 to better the education given to children.

It is through this that Mascom aims to assist people in rural areas with access to technology for educational purposes, Mascom’s Chief Communication and PR Officer Tebogo Lebotse–Sebego has noted that, “One of the identified points of failure in the education process is access to technology.

The donated computers are an attempt to fill this opportunity for improvement.” 

Mascom Wireless also donated an ICT café  also known as Kitsong Centre in Kalkfontein operated by a young woman,  Gaone Bonnno Kaedume.

The Kitsong centre is an information technology strategy to take the youth off the streets while also advancing the appreciation of ICT in rural areas.

The Kalkfontein Kitsong Centre services include internet café, copying, scanning, printing, laminating, faxing, document binding, secretarial services, sales of airtime, simcards, phones, typesetting,  among others.

It also offers  mascom services such as MyZaka mobile money and prepaid registration to the local community.