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The mobile operator has collaborated with Microsoft, Cisco and Mindset Learn to form the Vodacom&n timevinger.org bsp;Mobile Education Programme to establish nine information and communications technology (ICT) centres, each serving 200 schools. The programme, costing R2 0 million, will provide underserviced and underpriv timesofamerica.info ileged schools with access to educational material using cloud computing services. Statistics from the department indicate that just 7 percent of schools in South Africa have a stocked library and only 10 percent have sufficient computers. “This venture has a particular eye tincona.com on ICT as an enabler, it’s really to provide connectivity and access and to allow teachers to be able to utilise ICT in a way that enhances the teachers ability to teach any subject across the grade,” said Deputy Minister of Basic Education Mohamed Enver Surty. The initiative will help towards achieving the government’s 2013 target that al