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I wish to shear a personal experience with you: Before coming to Africa, I was an IT consultant in the UK and as such had access to computers. I took a lot for granted even without realizing that I was taking them for granted. In my first 6 months I produced and ran a radio program called "IT for Today". Through this program I tried to educate the local community on aspects of Information and Communication Technology. Last year I took on running a computer lab at a university, for students minoring in computer science. During one particular lab session I was intrigued and casually decided to test one of my assumptions and was shocked to discover that in a Class of over 100 second and third year students, minoring in computer science, more than 50% did not have an email account. Less than 20% spent over 1 hour a month on the Internet for anything. None of the other departments could boast of higher percentages as I was told.
For those of you who might be interested in knowing, or who can imagine, I have been searching the South West Province for a physical file server of any sort that is being used for what ever purpose. I have looked in hospitals, schools, some offices and among computer enthusiasts. I still have not seen one. Apart from a few cyber caffee with networked computers for Internet access (usually very slow), there are no networked computers in this part of the world. It tells me a lot about the level and what to expect form the young people in this region in the area of ICT.
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