BOTSWANA DIPS INTO CHILD FRIENDLY CONTENT

President Masisi attended UNICEF World Children’s Day event in Zambia and issues surrounding digitalising the educational system were pointed out.

Addressing the event, President Masisi said that the development of child friendly digital content can improve the learning in the third world countries and as the world is already in a digital era, it will be easy to evolve and merge into the digital educational system.

President Masisi said the SmartBots Strategy would enable Botswana to drive digital transformation as so far it’s intends into digital literacy and e-learning tools to prepare children and youth for the future. The government is making its efforts through issuance of learning electronic gadgets to all learners in schools.

“SmartBots recognises that the transformation of the public service sector is a critical step and in this connection, Botswana has adopted a ‘whole of government’ approach to transform the public sector to accelerate digital connectivity,” he said.

President Masisi applauded participating countries being Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia for their commitment to the course through rectifying the Convention on the Rights of Children (CRCs) and finding efforts to digitalise children’s content. He further went on to say that the next move should be domestication of the agreements on the commitment to protect children’s rights.