The information was contained in a press release made public after an audience granted to the the Deputy Director of the Sinchuan Telecommunications Construction and Engineering CO Ltd, Zhu Wenli on July 17, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Chinese Company is also charged with the execution of the e-National Higher Education Network project in Cameroon.The Minister of Higher Education, in the release, updates the public on;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*The donation of the 500,000 computers to students of state universities and those of private higher institutions of learning to be distributed in strict respect of the President\u2019s instructions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*The creation of University Development Digital Centers in Cameroon\u2019s eight state universities as well as the Cameroon-Congo Inter-state University based in Sangmelima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Concerning the Presidential grant, the press release states that the first consignment of computers will be made available in Shenzhen\/China where they are being manufactured in October 2017 and will get to Cameroon by December 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The press release specifies that the computers will be distributed following a calender to be announced later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The release states that each student duly registered in a state university or a private higher institution of learning in the 2016\/2017 academic year will be entittled to a computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In July 2016, the Head of State announced a donation of 500,000 computers to students inorder to encourage e-learning and professionalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Government of Cameroon awarded the FCFA 75 billion contract to a Chinese Company, Sichuan Telecom Construction Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Minister of Higher Education, Chancellor of Academic Orders, Jacque Fame Ndongo has said the 500,000 laptops, a Presidential grant to students of state universities and those of private higher…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cameroonnewsline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cameroonnewsline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cameroonnewsline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameroonnewsline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameroonnewsline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameroonnewsline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameroonnewsline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cameroonnewsline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameroonnewsline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameroonnewsline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}