Abstract
As the sub-Saharan region was expanding educational infrastructure, they met challenges to equip the rural schools with Personal Computers (PCs). The PCs as equipment that required frequently upgrading as technology evolved, the institutions from urban kept on replacing the outdated with the new ones that had high hardware and software specifications, such as RAM, hard-disc, CPU speed, etc. Though still functioning at an en-efficient level, the outdated PCs (o-PCs) were abandoned in some cases packed on corridors. These o-PCs were regarded as en-efficient because of degraded specification as in a long run technology demanded more resources. While these urban tertiary institutions were abandoning the o-PCs, the primary and secondary schools in rural areas were completely inaccessible of PCs. At a serious note, in some remote schools, pupils had not even touched a Computer Key-Board. These students were completely deprived of the IT/ICT technologies and services. It was against this background that the IT-Essentials students at the University of Namibia, in the Department of Computer Science, envisaged on an innovation of servicing and upgrading the abandoned o-PCs to be deployed in primary and secondary schools that were in remote areas. These refurbished PCs were deployed in targeted rural schools. In that way, these under privileged students had opportunity to experience and utilise the ICT facilities.
Highlights
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Namibia embarked on a community service project where the IT-Essential (IT-E) Students were refurbishing the abandoned computers for distribution and use by the learners from remote primary and secondary schools
These schools from rural and remote areas had no access to IT/ICT equipment such as Personal Computers (PCs)
As such these learners were not privileged to acquire and utilise IT skills in their education. This was contrary to institutions in urban areas where some individual schools had acquired Personal Computers (PC’s) for their students to use in shaping their IT/ICT learning landscape
Summary
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Namibia embarked on a community service project where the IT-Essential (IT-E) Students were refurbishing the abandoned computers for distribution and use by the learners from remote primary and secondary schools. These schools from rural and remote areas had no access to IT/ICT equipment such as Personal Computers (PCs). As such these learners were not privileged to acquire and utilise IT skills in their education This was contrary to institutions in urban areas where some individual schools had acquired PC’s for their students to use in shaping their IT/ICT learning landscape
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