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Digital Inclusion

Vietnam connects students in remote district

By Pia Rufino | 21 October 2011

About 1,000 youth in a remote district in Vietnam will have access to computer and internet facilities under a programme to address the digital divide in the country’s 62 poorest districts.

VietNam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT), a government-owned postal and telephone services organization, and Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union have provided the La Pan Tan Secondary School with six computer terminals connecting to internet services.

Principal Pham Tien Quang said, before this year, La Pan Tan Secondary School in the remote Mu Cang Chai district in the northern province of Yen Bai couldn’t even afford a computer.

Quang said some of the 250 students of the school do not have knowledge about using computers and internet until a computing class was recently held.

“The school has plans to offer computing courses to the community as well as its own students,” Quang said, noting that six teachers have been appointed to teach the classes.

Quang said that the facilities would bring access to up to 1,000 local young people.

VNPT deputy director Phan Hoang Duc said internet users in the classroom will be able to join in e-learning courses provided on VNPT’s website free of charge. Information on healthcare and agricultural promotion is also accessible in the website.

Youth Union secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh urged the school and local organisations like the Youth Union to manage the facility to avoid its abuse for online gaming instead of studying.

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