Computer Aid International has donated 2000 computers to the Ministry of Education.
Speaking when he received the computers, Education Minister Professor Geoffrey Lungwangwa said the provision of quality education requires the application  of information communication technology (ICT), especially computers.
Professor Lungwangwa observed that ICT is developing at a very fast rate adding that the development is creating new ways of learning and conducting business in the education sector.
He said the Ministry of Education in line with the Fifth National Development Plan has adopted the use of ICTs at various levels of the education delivery.
Professor Lungwangwa said computers are at the centre of being aids to strive to achieve quality, equity and efficiency in education.
He said ICT are changing the education system and Zambia desires to fully embrace the development.
And handing over the computers, Computer Aid International Southern Africa Programme Officer Hiller Addo said the mission of Computer Aid is to bridge the digital divide.
Mr. Addo said information technology skills are critical for the survival of all individuals in the information age.
Computer Aid International is a British Charity.
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At leat half the computers will be sold by officers in Ministry of Education.
Wndows 98 baposa!
More nincompoops and poppycock contributions on slot 1. when will people ever grow up???
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balderdash #5
Please check for the VIRAL LOAD?
Every worker in Minstry of Education will have a compunter in his/her house.
Hehehehehehehe…….. badyeela mu Eduction…
Satamania. Agreed. Eproblem iyo ine
This is really great!! I hope the people involved will take care of the computers.
Steal all the computer and take them to your homes because Bwezani is doing the same
bena zed tamunaka nama donations. Lyonse kula mi pela infintu. Awe we are still behind just increasing politicians salaries. I am joining Magande’s progressive party mukashala naba ngele bene nyama soya
How many ministers in the new government are not northerners? And what post’s have been allocated to them?.
i hope the Ministry will distribute those computers evenly even to places like shang’ombo and please connect internet to the districts boards as we are in a global village where elctronic mail are the order of the day not just at the Headquarters. mr ministers don’t be selfish but give others too
Breaking news MP’s Vote to Increase there salaries!! check the post.
please dnt use them to watch porn<<<
The journalism is so bad – the computers are FOR WHO?
#13 I agree with you. Fyacilamo ifima donations mwandini…the Bible says it is more blessed to give than to receive. When are we ever going to donate something to other countries???
#19 – you are our donation to Germany! What do you mean when are we going to start donating?
too true..when are we going to stop becoming beggars and expecting everything for nothing
Breaking news: Zambia parliament votes to increase salaries. Check Post Website. Shame on RB. It’s too soon.
where is the post article you are referring to? Post it on here
Who cares!
LT give us the news ‘Zambia parliament votes to increase salaries’.
#20 Nice one! I like that.
#20 You really broadened my thinking parameters with your simple logic. If we see deeply in this, one can rightly conclude that the developed countries donate to us material things while we donate to them immaterially. The best example is Barack Obama: Kenya’s donation to America!
let’s hope we won’t find those computers muma farm of big guys where people have no use of them. Hope they won’t be pressing the keys on the keyboard like icigayo. Guys share them nicely and appropriately. Give them to the right people. We also want to civilise as a nation and not as those who have relatives in power
The British charity is just ‘passing on’ the problem from developed countries like Britain to Zambia (Africa). They have so many computers and have no environmental or eco-friendly ways of getting rid of them so they ‘pass them on’ as donations to poor countries like Zambia in the name of bridging the ‘digital divide’. ICT is good but developed countries must not pass on future environmental problems to Zambia because we don’t have the capability to handle the negative offshots of the toxic substances found in computers especially old ‘donated ones from Britain’. The Zambian gov’t must counter check things and avoid creating future problems for future generations.
#28 iwe naiwe just appreciate aha!!! Yes its good to check the hazards of the toxic substances and whatever, but check the otherside also- do you want you ka cousin to be looked-up in thick walls of ignorance??? You yourself have a laptop, others don’t even know what it looks like. Learn to see the good side of things- in short be optimistic- being pessimistic is usually an obstacle for civilisation.
#28- the world is different when you’re in a Merc. and when you’re on an old bicycle (not for luxury but for survival)
#28- Have you ever heard of “chosing the lesser evil”??? This is our situation.
#29
What this charity has done is donate 2000 mini ‘nuclear booms’ to Zambia. Have you seen children born with defections caused by radition from toxic substances and do you know that where ever you bury toxic substances like those found in old computers, that place or land can never be used or lived on for millions of years? Is this what you are asking few country men and women accept? Have you looked at the long term implications of receiving toxic waste via donated computers?
#32
Thanks for your enlightenment. BUT tell me, So should, or rather, must we reject donations??? Have you yourself checked or proved of them to be “mini-nuclear booms”. Come on guys, we aren’t in a movie, this is real life and I fight for my fellow citizens to have life- biological, physical etc + INTELLECTUAL. Of course intellectual life shoudn’t come at the expense of terminating our own life. What proof do we have that these are a good donation- if there aren’t- then I’m absolutely on your side. YET I do not base my view on just a prejudice.
#32 Anonymous me say yu right, bredda. White people always have an ulterior motive when dealing with Black people, it’s a natural fact!
#33, Anonymous speak reality, seems like you de one living inna movie…you watch too much TV (Tell-lie-Vision).
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kabiyeni uko- send me a laptop, r u in LOndon??? How did you get there??? Is it nice? Did they give you their history??? Anyway, just send me a ka- laptop, I need one here.
How in heavens name can we be happy about the donation of 200 pc.Where is our pride.200 for a country of 72 districts,what are we talking about?2 per town.Why cant we arrange to buy our own computers.We can afford to fork out 50,000 USD per constituency for our M.Ps so the can buy themselves luxury SUVs.At 1,000 USD per computer that would translate to 50 computers per constituency.
Imagine how that would revolutionalise the school experience for thousands of our children.Wasn’t independence all about mapping out our own destiny.Donors now do our roads,build our schools etc.If they were ever to insist on taking management of this country,they would have my sympathies!
fi pentium 3.ha ha ha.even by child can never use them.ha ha
How many of our ministers know how to use a computer? Can someone ask in parliament?
where are the computers going to be used?