Malawi's Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology has committed $21,000 (K37m) to Mzuzu University to go live with Milab, an interactive virtual scientific laboratory for high school students, in an effort to bridge the country's digital divide.
Madalitso Kambauwa, minister of basic and secondary education, called the idea as disruptive since it provides community day secondary schools with access to technological resources that are typically unavailable to them.
According to the Ministry, around 70 secondary schools will have access to the app, and developers hope to expand user access.
Professor Wales Singini, vice chancellor of Mzuzu University, stated that the institution's ICT Team is devoted to developing technologies that meet societal demands.
"I think as Mzuzu University, we are going into further because we have been informed that there are still some more modules to be developed and actually, we are supposed to cover all STEM with this development so, our team is eager to move into right direction to support the ministry and the secondary schools that are really facing such problems," Singini said..
Milab was developed and launched by Mzuzu University ICT department with support from United Nations Development Programme and the National Commission for Science and Technology.
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