Internet Solutions (IS), a leading converged communications services provider, has adopted Tshwarango Primary School in Thokoza and recently handed over 1 500 tracksuits to the students for the winter months.
"Tshwarango has been selected as the primary focus for our CSI programme," says IS Marketing Executive Anthony Southgate. "Thokoza is a disadvantaged informal settlement and we feel we can make a real and direct difference in the lives of these young children. Tracksuits were clearly needed to get the children warmly through the winter, and we were really heartened by the way the community turned out to welcome us on the day we handed them over. I will never forget the look on these kids' faces."
IS is also actively involved in collecting reading books for the new library that is being built by Dimension Data as part of the process of upgrading the school to house the rapid growth in number of learners from the area.
"We are sponsoring a teacher at the school for the 2007 school year, have sent the principal on a leadership networking course, and are committed to sustaining the fund-raising activities," Southgate added.
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Internet Solutions (IS) is a leading provider of end-to-end connectivity solutions and related services across the African continent. The people at IS are passionate about constantly innovating and delivering solutions and services that are relevant and critical to their customers. These services are built on a world-class, secure, resilient infrastructure, delivered according to global best practices and effected in partnership with the world's leading technology vendors. It is through these services and solutions that IS creates a competitive edge for its customers' communication needs, and promotes sustainable business growth.
The business was founded in 1992 on the principle of developing a robust infrastructure in order for corporates and other organisations to communicate. Since then, IS has established itself as a leader in this space, attracting over 80% of South Africa's top businesses as clients. From listed companies to non-governmental organisations, local and national government and smaller companies, IS is enabling and evolving communications to meet the business needs of thousands of customers.
Today the company enjoys a leadership position as it delivers services including: hosting, access, security solutions, virtual private network, mobile solutions, VOIS, African solutions, broadband and application services. Recent growth in the African economy has resulted in IS spreading its services across all parts of the continent as clients demand reliable and robust networking connectivity in the African market.
Internet Solutions has been certified as a level four contributor to BEE (100% compliant), and has earned an impressive collection of accolades and awards.
Partnerships with major global players such as Cisco and Microsoft are also fundamental to IS, and as such Internet Solutions was recently awarded Microsoft Gold Certification in the hosting specialisation for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (Hosted Exchange and SharePoint) and Managed Hosting Solutions - the first South African company to achieve this accreditation. Similarly in 2002 IS was certified as a Cisco Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP), the first company outside of the US to be awarded this accolade.
For more, visit us at www.is.co.za.
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