The information was transmitted this Friday by the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Information Technology, Manuel Oliveira, at the end of a ceremony to inaugurate three computer rooms in schools in Luanda.
Under the program "Ngola Digital", coordinated by the Ministry of Telecommunications, Information Technology and Social Communication (MTTICS), elementary school in the district of Rangel, the municipality of Cazenga and Cacuaco, in Luanda, won this Friday computer rooms.
According to the governor, the delivery of these rooms to school institutions is part of an MTTICS program aimed at increasing digital literacy among children, adolescents and young people.
"[We are creating] tools that allow our youth to be integrated in the technological world. It is the Government's responsibility to work with educational and other institutions so that information and communication technologies are tools at the service of the community," he said in statements to journalists.
Mário Oliveira also mentioned that "Ngola Digital" is a national project and that it has already installed around 81 points that will benefit the same number of schools, and 46 internet stations have already been inaugurated in Luanda.
Without revealing the costs involved in the project, the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Information Technology said that in projects of this nature the "money is the least of their concerns".
"And the end result is more interesting to us, with this project ITEL [Telecommunications Institute of Luanda] will train trainers so that institutions can manage these rooms now delivered," he noted.
The elementary school Maria Mazzarelo nº 3066, in the municipality of Cazenga, was one of the beneficiaries, being contemplated with a room with 21 computers, to the satisfaction of Mother Maribel González, responsible for the institution.
For the nun, the computer room "will be an added value for the institution, especially in the integral formation that aims to train young people, children and adolescents in the field of technologies".
"Ngola Digital" counts with the support of the Communications Development Support Fund, the National Institute for the Promotion of the Information Society of Angola and ITEL, which will train the trainers.
