Scholarships cover tuition, boarding and other school-related expenses.

“Mobile and broadband technology is a key enabler for access to a quality education in all communities, even the poorest and most rural. Delivering cloud-based computers and connecting them in the eight schools is a major step in our mission to bring a quality secondary education to more students,” said Elaine Weidman, Vice President, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility, Ericsson.

PC as a Service uses laptops on a mobile broadband connection, and allows students to have access to the news, information and the latest educational content, as well as fellow students around the world.

For teachers, it allows greater focus on students, as maintenance of the solution is done remotely.

The eight secondary schools now using the solution are located in Millennium Villages Project clusters in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda where Ericsson has been active in providing the network infrastructure and services to bring voice and data communications as part of the broader Millennium Villages Project.

During 2011 Connect To Learn was deployed in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. In total, some 5,000 African students now have access to quality learning resources for a 21st century education.

In addition to these activities, ICT deployments have begun in Chile and Jamaica where hundreds more students will benefit from the support of Connect To Learn.

A global education initiative, Connect To Learn is designed to ensure a 21st century secondary education for everyone – even those in the most remote villages of the world – by providing secondary school scholarships for girls, and making ICT investments in their schools to improve access to quality educational resources.