Taking Technology to Poor Schools

This week the first E-Learning Resource Center was opened in Soweto. The center, which will serve as a lab for six local schools too small to justify a lab of their own, will be used to train the

teachers, who may be less computer literate than the children they are about to educate.

"Bringing computers to disadvantaged communities isn't innovative,"

said Digital Partnership's founder, Roger Davies. "But too often centers are set

up with just the hardware. They only work if you have the hardware, software, networks, support and training to make them sustainable.

"The

Digital Partnership aims to set up at least one training center in each province and install 3000 internet-enabled PCs in schools by the end

of this year.