NetDay is a non-profit organization that empowers schools through access to Information and Communication Technologies.

NetDay is committed to the promotion of Free and Open Source Software in all fields of education. From humble beginnings as a non-profit vendor of cabling kits for schools, we have matured into an independent NGO specializing in ICT in education with project deployment, technical support, training and consulting capacity.

We are deeply committed to the promotion of sustainable technology solutions and focus on the needs of rural, disadvantaged schools.

1. Our support

Do you have a corporate social responsibility budget? Is it making a difference to people on the ground? We can ensure the meaningful application of your funds at gross-roots level. When your company sponsors a computer lab, teacher training or technical support at one of our rural disadvantaged schools, you will know that your contribution is adding to an established, reputable and sustainable project in education.

2. Your old PC’s

Is your company buying new computer hardware? Don’t throw out those old PCs and poison the environment. Donate them to us and we’ll turn them into useful tools that change people’s lives - and save the planet at the same time. If we cannot use them we will have them safely and professionally recycled.

3. Your support

In the pursuit of our aims, we provide leading-edge services in the field of sustainable technology in education. These services include:

• Corporate Social Responsibility project management in educational technology

• Network installations

• GNU/Linux servers, firewalls and filtering proxies

• GNU/Linux thin client solutions

• Technical support

• Computer refurbishment

NetDay is the leading ICT in education deployment NGO in Africa. We have a national footprint across South Africa of over 5000 networked PC installations in schools. NetDay is also a proud technology provider to the award-winning TuxLab Project of The Shuttleworth Foundation.

We operate Africa-wide in a consultative capacity, and we have been internationally acknowledged as experts in our field.

4. Sustainable Technology

Our criteria for the selection of components that constitute sustainable technology in education are simultaneously both simple and comprehensive. As a fundamental, it is essential that they use Free Software wherever possible. Non-free Software will be used only as a last resort when there is no free alternative readily available. As a basic minimum requirement, the systems that we deploy must be:

• Stable and robust

• Easy to administer

• Low on maintenance

• Low on power consumption

• Resistant to computer viruses

• Offer reduced Total Cost of Ownership

• Modifiable according to the context

• Easily available to anyone that wants it

Using these criteria as a baseline for what can be considered a sustainable technology model, we currently deploy our systems on a free and open source GNU/Linux platform, running the K12LTSP modification of Fedora Core with a Linux Terminal Server. Educational and commercial software tools are then built into the base system. The workstations are stripped down, old Pentium boxes. The server is low-cost, desktop PC. Our labs show that these readily available and easily configured components transform into the ultimate educational ICT tool for the technology age.

5. Hands On Training

Effective training is central to the meaningful utilization of the technologies that are deployed by NetDay. Training is therefore offered as a core component of our schools-based interventions. Our focus is to ensure that training does not stop at technical know-how but that it extends to the application of technical knowledge across the curriculum.

6. Consulting and Project Management

NetDay has a growing reputation as an experienced source of sectoral intelligence for the funding, management and evaluation of IT-related education projects. With hands-on project experience in all the provinces of South Africa as well as in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and Namibia, we offer a broad range of understanding and practical knowledge in the development context.

7. The Coza Cares Project

NetDay is the deployment partner of the Coza Care Project, a longstanding and ongoing Corporate Social Responsibility programme funded by UniForum South Africa. UniForum SA is the registrar of the .co.za domain. The Coza Cares Project has brought sustainable technology solutions into more than eighty schools computer labs, placed in rural clusters spread over five provinces of South Africa. The Coza Cares Project has been assisting underdeveloped communities since 2001. http://co.za