Principal Thulani Thwala of Inkosi uMdibaniso Comprehensive High School near Port Shepstone in KwaZulu-Natal was awarded the Internet Service Providers` Association (ISPA) of SA`s "Super Teacher of the Year" accolade at a ceremony last night.
The award recognises the educator who has most successfully imparted IT knowledge to local communities, after participating in ISPA`s national "Train the Teachers" project. The award is part of ISPA`s annual iWeek conference taking place in Johannesburg this week.
The project assists in solving the computer literacy problems experienced in schools and is funded by UniForum SA. Since the inception of the initiative in 2001, 633 teachers have been trained. ISPA`s social development committee will train a further 90 teachers during the September holidays.
Training is conducted by accredited training organisations using school computer labs deployed by NetDay and funded by the CO-ZA Cares "School of the Month" project. All training is conducted on open source software installed at these venues.
Partners of the "Train the Teacher" project are ISPA and UniForum SA, while sponsors include Hetzner Africa, MTN Network Solutions, Internet Solutions, UUNET SA, ZAnet Internet Services and Intoweb.
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