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The project was launched in 2003 at the African Economic Summit in Durban . The aim is to cover all high schools within 5 years of the start of implementation and all primary schools within 10 years, a total of some 600,000 schools. In June, 2005 , at the World Economic Forum Africa Summit in Cape Town , it was announced that the first school to benefit from the program would be Bugulumbya Secondary School in the village of Busobya , Uganda . A consortium of companies lead by Hewlett Packard is to equip the school in collaboration with the Ugandan government. A demonstration project involving various private companies is planned to take place over 12-18 months in 16 countries including: Algeria , Burkina Faso , Cameroon , Egypt , Gabon , Ghana , Kenya , Lesotho , Mali , Mauritius , Mozambique , Nigeria , Rwanda , Senegal , South Africa and Uganda. EXTERNAL LINKS
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