Over the past 4 weeks we have had the opportunity to visit schools, talk to the educators and the administrators, work with the Department of Education and teach some of the IT resources at the department. We’ve asked a lot of questions, had many discussions, presented some ideas, documented a strategy and built a ‘proof of concept’ school portal.
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| The School Portal |
Today, we presented the new vision roadmap for Information and Communications Technology and demonstrated the capabilities of the new portal to the Executive Board. For the first time in my experience, the CFO actually stated that he gave this new vision 100% of his support. We must have done something right to get the head finance person to endorse the project.
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| Yep .. chicken head and worm!! |
We started off the project with a big gala dinner and now we close off the project with another gala dinner. We had requested some true South African cuisine and that is exactly what we got. The evening began with presentations from the 2 teams working with the Department of Education and then moved on to dinner. We began with an appetizer of chicken livers, and then proceeded to a buffet of delicacies such as; pap, chicken feet, chicken heads, Mopani worms, beef tripe, grilled chicken and pork, spinach, squash and salad. It was completed with a lovely selection of desserts. I must say I was a little intimidated but I did manage to try EVERYTHING except the chicken heads. I did enjoy the meal .... it was only the Mopani worms I would be reluctant to try again.
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| Getting our souvenirs! |
They presented all the IBM team members with some souvenirs. With heartfelt thanks, we bid them farewell and promised to stay in touch.
The entire experience was fulfilling on so many levels. One can only be motivated to do more for our fellow humankind!
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