Ekiti Begins One- Child, One- Laptop Project

By Wale Ojo Lanre - 17.05.2008

All Senior Secondary School 1 students in Ekiti State will be proud owners of laptop computers as from September, 2008.
This inroad to educational development scheme was revealed by Mr. Gbenga Akinbode, Co-ordinator and Consultant to Technovision Communication.

Addressing journalists in Ibadan recently, Mr Akinbode disclosed that the Ekiti-State Government had consented to partnership agreement with Technovision Communication, a USA- based IT company, to equip all SS 1 students in the state with a laptop each.

He revealed that over 10,000 computers would be provided for the exercise with 250 of them Internet compliant already made available in the State.

Mr Akinbode said the one laptop per child was an initiative of the state governor, Engineer Segun Oni, who believed that Ekiti, being the fountain of knowlege, must ensure that the students were IT compliant.

He revealed that the secondary school teachers were already undergoing computer traning in the spirit of train-the-trainer for a successful implementation of the execise.