ADVANCING: Students of Iganga Progressive School during a computer lesson recently

By Vision Reporter

U-CONNECT, a project that supplies cheap information communication technology to schools, has embarked on regional network training workshops in a bid to help more schools acquire computer skills.

The first workshop was held in Tororo recently for the Eastern region.
The project co-ordinator, Sam Rico, said 32 students and 11 teachers were trained during the workshop.

Rico said the trainees were drawn from Rock High, Kisoko High, Lumino High, Nabumali High, Dabani Girls’ Secondary, Dabani Girls primary and Masaba College schools.

The project director, Daniel Stern, said the trainees got both theory and practical training.

The trainees are expected to later install Local Area Networks in their schools.
Uconnect solicits and refurbishes used computers from Europe, which they sell cheaply to Ugandan schools.

The computers are sold at $160 (about sh296,000) for a school buying more than five units and $170 for a school taking less than five units. Once the schools’ networks are installed, Uconnect helps to connect them on the Internet.