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ENGINEERING, THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY

eSchools are the future but

are they ready?

The organisational and infrastructure enablers for ICT readiness in South African schools are
lacking in the majority of provinces.

“eSchools are the future, especially in a world full of uncertainty with input from the Department of Basic Education (DBE). “In 2020
and where households have limited resources,” says Professor we used the tool in order to understand the level of intervention
Darelle van Greunen of the Centre for Community Technologies required to enable ICT-based education in government schools.”
(CCT) at Nelson Mandela University. In pursuit of this goal, the CCT
helped to develop the eReady ICT Maturity Assessment tool, an The CCT’s research, titled eReadiness Assessment Tool for
easy to download app to assess and evaluate the e-readiness of all Schools and authored by Prof van Greunen and Johan Botha
government schools in South Africa. (CCT Senior Project Manager) was presented and published as
part of the proceedings of the IST-Africa 2020 Conference – a
The app was developed in collaboration with the Department of virtual international forum to showcase research, innovation
Science and Innovation and the Technology Innovation Agency, and ICT4D* activities and capacity in support of the Digital

Prof Darelle van Greunen and CAT teacher, Afikile Sikwebu

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