Posted by Microsoft in collaboration with Mauritius’s State Informatics Limited have provided 10,000 computers to a flourishing local operative, the Leal Group, for free distribution to poor people on the Island, APA learned Sunday.
The gesture is in a bid to reduce the digital divide, the Leal Group’s vice chief executive, Vivien Serret told journalists Sunday in Port Louis.
Serret added that Microsoft is giving its license free as part of its corporate social responsibility.
He added that the computers, Pentium 4, have been bought second hand by the company in England and that Microsoft has installed the software free.
Serret further explained that the Leal Group will open an academy to give more advanced courses to trainers who will introduce the use of computers and the internet to students and their parents.
Source African Press Agency
