{"id":144440,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/144440/?format=json","text_counter":333,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we can go on and on about what we want to do about education. As far as Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) is concerned, I notice that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance said that we will be given so many computers. I came from Rwanda the other day where there is a really fantastic program called “One laptop per child”. Those laptops are being used in primary schools and Rwanda ordered nearly 100,000 of those. They intend, for every single primary school child, to have a laptop computer that will give him or her the facility of all books and other facilities. I was told that officials of the “One Laptop per Child Program”, came and talked to the Ministry of Education, but it never responded. They invited them, but they never responded! I was told by Prof. Negroponte himself that it appears that the Ministry here has different priorities. I think this is the time for ICT. The “One Laptop per Child Program” is the way forward. That is what you will give to your public schools – the facilities and ability to get information, to get specialized education standards higher up without even having to improve on the physical requirements of the schools."}