Digital Doorway

The Digital Doorway is a joint initiative between the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the CSIR that has as its vision to make a fundamental difference to computer literacy and associated skills in Africa. We envisage this happening through the innovative approach of minimally invasive education (MIE).

MIE differs fundamentally from other ICT provision interventions in that it holds that everyone has the inherent cognitive ability to teach themselves, provided computers can be made easily accessible to potential learners and an environment can be created in which they can learn through experimenting.

The Digital Doorway project started in November 2002 with the first installation in Cwili, a rural community in the Eastern Cape. By the end of March 2005 twenty-four Digital Doorways had been deployed countrywide.