President Jacob Zuma to launch operation Phakisa in ICT in Education

President Jacob Zuma.

President Jacob Zuma will on Friday, 02 October 2015, launch the Operation Phakisa in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education which aims to enhance the country’s standard of basic education system in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni.

The Operation Phakisa in Education which is launched under theme ICT in Education: Leveraging ICTs to improve Basic Education is anticipated to, amongst other things, address the need to train and prepare teachers to integrate ICT in their classrooms and change their teaching practices aligned to the ICT resources.

It will further address the need to develop, source and distribute high class Digital Content for all subjects starting with high priority subjects such as Maths and Science and digital resources to support the Incremental Introduction and African Languages.

Operation Phakisa is part of the 9-point plan and has already started in the Health and Marine sectors but expected to start in October in the mining sector and Basic education sectors. The main aim of this strategic operation is to bring business and government together in building the dream South Africa.