08 Feb 2017

Orange Foundation continues to invite applicants to submit projects aligned to the digital education theme.

The Orange Call for Digital Schools project is a group initiative with the objective to provide free educational content in digital format for primary and secondary students in Africa.

A press release from Orange Botswana says primarily, the project offers the schools with a digital kit that includes a mini server of educational content connected to tablets that children use for instant access to hundreds of items of essential content and books from the school curriculum.

The release says the programme is delivered in partnership with the education ministries of each country, who are instrumental in identifying the most appropriate school text books for pupils, which is then uploaded into the kit.

The release states that the programme has already been rolled-out in 12 countries by the Orange Foundations and affiliates in France, Ivory Coast, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Niger, Madagascar, Senegal, Tunisia, Mali, Guinea, Egypt and Jordan, covering 500 schools and benefiting more than 130 000 children.

It also says this year, the call for projects focuses on extending the programme to new schools and also on improving the programme in already opened schools.

Furthermore, the release says proposals for improvement will focus on four topics, which are replacement of defective equipment, training of teachers and students in the use of the digital kit and its content, enrichment of the local offer of content for the digital kit, and electrification of schools. ENDS