Eradicating the digital divide in all our WCED schools

“The successful implementation of technology in our Western Cape Education Department schools is a necessity,” said Western Cape Education Minister Donald Grant on Tuesday.

“Therefore I am pleased that the Western Cape is leading the rest of the country in the delivery and roll-out of ICT infrastructure in our schools and I am confident that by the end of the 2011/2012 financial year, technology will be incorporated in every school in the Western Cape.”

Grant said that in November 2001, the Western Cape Education Department (WCED), under the leadership of the then MEC for Education Helen Zille, launched an initiative aimed at ensuring that every school learner had access to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) by 2012.

The project offered huge potential for improving the quality of education in the Western Cape, particularly in disadvantaged schools that lacked adequate teaching and learning resources.

“Nine years later, the Khanya Project is fast approaching their target which is set to eradicate the digital divide in all of our provinces schools,” said Grant, “as in Bridgeville Primary in Athlone.”