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The Director General DG of the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe Potraz Dr Gift Callisto’s Machengete has promised to steer his parastatal targets to equip more than 600 school laboratories this year as efforts to improve connectivity and bridge the digital divide continue.
DG Machengete made these revelations last month during the commissionion of a National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) by his boss the Minister of ICT and Courrier Services In Victoria Falls Dr Jenfan Muswere. Machengete stood by his revelations whilst speaking in Victoria Falls following the launch of the first ever multi-million dollar rail fibre optic project Bandwidth and Cloud Services (BCS) Group.
This comes on the backdrop of Potraz having already last year equipped over 1 000 school laboratories with computers and broadband services.
This recent success should mean more possibilities this year to target almost half of last year’s accomplishements by the DG’s office.
Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe last year equipping more than 1 000 school laboratories with computers and broadband services countrywide, gives confidence and needed impetus to do more and even better.
This programme is in line with the Second Republic’s thrust to leave no one and no place behind as it rallies to transform the country into an upper-middle-class economy by 2030.
The director general said, “broadband is the bedrock of the 4th industrial revolution” adding that, “Potraz recognises the socio-economic benefits of broadband and its transformative benefits to national development and to overall quality of life.”
“We have equipped 1 117 school laboratories this year and that includes universities which did not have gadgets and we target about 695 laboratories in 2023,” said Dr Machengete.
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