Going Digital or another GoDigitalGate

From the shared Information the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is undergoing a paradigm whereby they are encouraging every school to Digitalize so as to catch up with Global Standards. Is it a bad thing to digitalize Zimbabwe schools?, not at all e-governance is the future and one cannot ignore its impact and value is bringing to competitiveness to this world. What then is the problem, as an IT Teacher I feel Website Design is not a service that can only be attributed to be monopolized by a single Company, every school I think has the right to have anyone designing it's a website as long as such would give the School to give convenience Value. Is it justified to have a Ministry conduct Compulsory $25 school funded workshop to promote Website Design?, Excuse me I think so, but such standards should be attributed to Zimbabwe the only country in the 21st Century whereby even designing a website is considered as an innovation.

Is GoDigital the only Company with Individuals who can design websites in Zimbabwe?, not at all, there are so many companies and even students at my Computer Science Class can do it. Then is the Ministry really going about holding compulsory $35 schools funded workshops to promote a Website Company?, no from a workshop I attended we had gone in the pretest of attending a workshop to learn about Website Designing and then the Presentation was convoluted for GoDigital claimed to posses an innovative School Management Software as part of their package, and yes the more they are pressed to answer some questions they only dwell much on their Websites and Bulk SMS and least on their Software. Is there a syndicate the Public is not told about going on, no I do not know I guess one has to maintain his own point of view, investigate more and rely upon the acquired knowledge to develop a theory.

Since Web Design, Bulk SMS and Hosting is common amongst Public Discourse, I was prompted to look deep into the School Management System Package they offer, for the technology might not be new in Technology Vocabulary as I know of Fedena in India, Edupac in Capetown and Inilabs School Management Software from India, Academy Report from Zimbabwe, EduCloud and other Companies, but this technology is still under construction and its Consumers are yet to discern based on which of them bring them Value, hence my interests where based in seeing what they had in their package I couldn't help but came across what I feel the Zimbabwean Public needs to be clarified to on what is going on. Clicking in the Service Variable written "School Management System" one is directed to a topic written "Educloud", searched based on the Internet Search or Google PlayStore EduCloud was developed and still owned by Indian Developers?, Our Innovative GoDigital Developers working from India?, I really do not know that, maybe GoDigital and the Ministry can help with that answer. As one clicks down where it is written Download Product Profile surprisingly he/she is not at least connected to the URL but to a PDF Document. Does the Document consistently maintain that what is provided is EduCloud?, not at all it speaks about School Management System, what it does, and as for the name, in appearance GoDigital is offering a Software and its name is very murky. Does GoDigital know the name, I think so, Does the Ministry of Education know the name of the Software, maybe some and then I do not know again?, do schools know the Software?, they are told that its GoDigital yet again they do not know at all. What does the Profile Document reveal about the name then?, here is the most interesting Part of GoDigital, there is a contradiction from the advertised Information before the PDF and in the PDF and here where my observations from the Profile which is Publicly available.

In Page 4 of their Profile Document they claim to have within the Package a Certificate Management Module, should one look deep into the Certificate there are faint words there and one can't help but notice that its written "Inilabs School Management System" .If all their advertising words are visible then what makes this one so faint?, my assumption is clear, it's the work of graphic designing or photoshoping, it is not an accident that other words are fainted but it is by design that someone is trying to hide something, unluckily maybe that somebody is not smart enough to even hide what he wants to hide. 

Figure 2

 

I couldn't help but admire figure 2 as depicted in page 9 of the Publicly available Document, first the Student Name there is written as "Dipok Kumar Halder". One would wonder, did GoDigital forget to faint the name or they thought there would be no one critical enough to ask a question on why would Zimbabwean Developers who happen to be from a Shona-Ndebele dominated Society would imagine a student with a name of Dipok Kumar Halder, whilst we have our own Tsitsis, Sifelanis, Chinotimbas, Kudzayi, Sibangilizwes, etc. Then the question continues again, who is GoDigital and why GoDigital and the Ministry of Education in the first place?

 

This is depicted in page 18 of the Information provided by GoDigital and even after some fainting the School is "Inilabs School". Remember this is not the Information coming as a figment of my imagination but just public available information as provided by a Company which is about to make approximately 3.5 million dollars from the fees paid by hardworking and struggling Parents within a month. Shouldn't we be asking how it is these local developers are too much in using Inilabs in their Profile or there is much to it more than you can imagine?

 

When asked in the Mandatory $25 School Funded Workshop GoDigital gave a link to the software they are providing for Demonstration and the link is http://yourpreschool-co-za.stackstaging.com/school/signin/index and with this link there are always two possibility, its either Google will tell you that it is not available or it will mysteriously lead you to another end, one will be directed to a certain PreSchool Platform with South African Address and Contact Details and then when one wants to access the provided demonstration he/she is automatically directed to the below shown graphic Presentation;

Of course everyone knows who the Zimbabwe Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is right, there is a Minister, Permanent Secretary, Directors from various Departments, Provincial Education Directors, District School Inspectors, School Heads, Hardworking Teachers, School Development Committees and of Course Schools, where we send our children everyday to go and learn to be better citizens of society tomorrow, then GoDigital again the Ministry of Education has recently been having schools to fund its workshops with $25, they are about to make approximately 3.5million United States Dollars within a month, they claim in their Presentation, where a group of Intellectuals are listening that they are in partnership with Youtube and Google to look big and no one even find it cognitively repugnant and disturbing but people clap their hands, but little is known about IniLabs. From the Internet available Information IniLabs is an Indian Open Source Software  which allows one to buy it for US$19.95 at Ebay, EnvatoMarket and sell it any preferable price, thus as depicted from the latest market as from 1 November 2018;

Oh wait a minute then what is the connection between GoDigital and IniLabs?, I will leave to to the Public to have GoDigital and the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to explain what is really going on.