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“Cape Town-based Wizzy Digital Courier, which delivers Internet content via a courier system, and offers cost effective computing and Internet access to schools, has launched a pilot project in Eshowe in Zululand. Eshowe is a small, rural town with very little telephone connectivity.
“Andy Rabagliati, technical director of Wizzy Digital Courier, says the company selected KwaZibonele Junior Primary–a school with 950 pupils in grades one to four and with an average age of nine–for the pilot. The school had previously been donated eight computers but had little use for them.
“Wizzy Digital Courier has installed two servers: one of its small servers used for e-mail and radio connectivity and a Linux thin-client server to replace the Microsoft software on the school computers. The thin-client software reduces maintenance in a school environment because instead of performing maintenance on every computer in the network all configuration and software installation is only performed only once on the thin-client server…”