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Vodacom and some of the biggest names in technology have teamed up with the Department of Education in South Afri webapex.net ca to launch a multi-million rand scheme. The mobile operator has collaborated with Microsoft, Cisco and Mindset Learn to form the Vodacom Mob westernmagazine.org ile Education Programme to establish nine information and communications technology (ICT) centres, each serving 200 schools. The programme, costing R20 million, will provide underserviced and underprivileged school ysin.org s 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 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,” s