DESPITE rapid developments in communication technologies in the last few decades, radio broadcasting remains the cheapest mode of mass communication in Zambia that can benefit rural and deprived communities with low literacy rates and little excess to education-

At a recent conference on Digital Learning in Kitwe, participants sat bemused as Dr. Sunga Mitalami of NIIT gave a very engaging account of his ‘Hole in the Wall’ project. Dr. Mitalami explained how children of Kitwe’s slums with no education and no knowledge of English quickly picked up different computer functions, when given unsupervised access to a computer and the internet through a kiosk.