Chisamba ICT Hub Boosts Digital Literacy
By Linda Mupemo The ICT Hub has boosted digital literacy among girls at the learning institutions. Anne Chisanga moves the mouse from left to right as she skillfully designs a colourful pinkish pie chart on her computer. She later fills it with various percentages representing sample data. “I am practicing how to design a visual representation of data using a pie chart,” she confidently tells this Reporter. The 15-year-old girl is a grade nine pupil at Chisamba Secondary School. Anne reveals that she is taking advantage of the free internet connectivity in the computer laboratory at her school to build up on what she learns in class. “Knowing how to operate a computer has improved my studies . I now use the internet to research further and add on to what I learn in class,” she says. Next to her is Faith Sengula who is practicing how to enter figures in an excel sheet. Faith says she has learnt how to type, design cards using word publisher, using excel and sending emails. The