11,500 laptops and tablets delivered to public schools

The delivery of 11,500 laptops and tablets for public primary schools under the digital Learning Programme is a step in the right direction.

These gadgets are a great welcome to the learners who have been patient for the last three years.

With the digital progamme ready for take-off, stakeholders in the education sector should now focus on securing the valuable gadgets from marauding thieves who have in the past broken into institutions to steal, for instance books and computers.

Public schools are today constructing high perimeter walls to safeguard their compounds, surmounted with razor barbed wires, fitting metallic grills at every entry and installing modern Electronic surveillance and CCTV cameras.

However more needs to be done to deter criminal from targeting laptops.

Most public institutions are using basic techniques of Assets tagging, spray painting; branding and coding to mark assets unaware that these soft conventional labeling techniques will not provide comprehensive assets’ security.

Therefore, ICT assets that have been delivered to our public primary schools need application of indigenous “conventional Assets Engraving technology” to combat this transnational theft which can help to arrest the financiers of the illegal trade.