Vice President, Sustainability and Corporate
Responsibility at Ericsson, Mr. Elaine
Weidman, made this disclosure to ITRealms Online in a press statement.
The VP said that eight secondary schools have now
received the Personal Computing (PC) as a service solution, even as more than
500 multi-year scholarships have been planned to be distributed in 2012.
According to him, eight secondary schools in Africa have
now received the PC as a service solution, a cloud-computing solution that
provides schools with a low-maintenance, easy-to-use model that is optimized
for mobile broadband networks.
“The deployment is part of Connect-To-Learn’s initiative
in the Millennium Village clusters in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda,” he
said.
Additionally, he pointed out that over 500 scholarships
will be distributed before the end of year 2012; thanks to Connect-To- Learn
partners which include Ericsson, the Sanchez-Palm Girls Scholarship Fund,
SpinMaster, JM Eagle and a number of individual contributors.
He explained that these scholarships would cover tuition,
boarding and other school-related expenses.
“Mobile and broadband technology is a key enabler for
access to a quality education in all communities, even the poorest and most
rural. Delivering cloud-based computers and connecting them in the eight
schools is a major step in our mission to bring a quality secondary education
to more students,” the VP said.
PC as a Service uses laptops on a mobile broadband connection,
and allows students to have access to the news, information and the latest
educational content, as well as fellow students around the world. For teachers,
it allows greater focus on students, as maintenance of the solution is done
remotely.
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