ICT in education

On the 5^th of May 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to the COVID-19 Health Emergency. It marked an official end to a challenging period when humanity tried to maintain a semblance of normalcy amidst a relatively new disease outbreak that necessitated adaptive management approaches to try and cope. 

This country profile forms the initial stage of a mixed methods data collection process employed to gather secondary data for the ICT in Education project. This first stage of the study entails a careful review of secondary documents gathered from a range of sources including public government items dealing with the country’s economic and social, legal framework, ICT infrastructure, the availability of ICT tools within the country’s education sector system strategy as well as teachers and students’ capabilities.

This country profile forms the initial stage of a mixed methods data collection process employed to gather secondary data for the ICT in Education project. This first stage of the study entails a careful review of secondary documents gathered from a range of sources including public government items dealing with the country’s economic and social, legal framework, ICT infrastructure, the availability of ICT tools within the country’s education sector system strategy as well as teachers and students’ capabilities.

Botswana is a small, dynamic country that is an education success story and has deployed resourced into implementing its ICT, which is linked to the broader economic vision for the country. A landlocked country, located between Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia, Botswana has, since its independence in 1966, rapidly became one of the world’s development success stories (World Bank).