Mascom lauded for youth empowerment initiatives
Wednesday, July 08, 2015
Masiga
The initiative is driven through the 81 Mascom Kitsong Centres that exist in villages across the country.
Speaking at a Mascom Kitsong Centre workshop held in Gaborone on Monday, Director in the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services, Cecil Masiga said the workshop signifies that Mascom appreciates that ICT is transforming industries and challenging old notions of how people communicate and collaborate.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...