The WIFI Network is intended enable the communities in the Benefit Area to connect to the digital world, so that when connected, the community can have access to development tools and/or other resources in different sectors such as Education, Health and Commerce.
As at the date of Launch, some 34 public areas (schools, clinics, community halls and others) in various communities in the Benefit Area connected to the WIFI Network, with 20 more scheduled for completion by the end of the 2022 calendar year
In education for example, learners are enabled by the Dikuno WIFI Network to conduct research for schools assignments online.
“One of the objectives that we need to achieve to make sure that there's sustainability beyond mining was to introduce the project that we launching today which is WiFi and as well as ICT Centre focusing mainly on Education”
A Network Operating Centre to monitor the network established and intended to train and employ local Operators/Technicians.
Some of the schools are already participating in meetings of the Department of Basic Education virtually – using the Dikuno WIFI network and combining that with the MS Teams DBE license(s).