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Weblab — Cabo Verde's Nationwide School Tech Labs, and Their Unresolved 2022 Shutdown

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Since 2018, Cabo Verde's NOSi and Ministry of Education built 44 tech labs in 43 schools, training close to 14,000 students in coding and robotics. But the programme was suspended in Dec. 2022 — equipment locked, monitors dismissed — still idle in late 2023: a cautionary tale.

~14,000
Students trained (2018-2022)
44
Tech labs built
43
Schools covered
Weblab — Cabo Verde's Nationwide School Tech Labs, and Their Unresolved 2022 Shutdown

Details

Maturity
Discontinued
Promoter
NOSi (Núcleo Operacional para a Sociedade de Informação) & Ministry of Education, Cabo Verde
Period
2018–2022 active; suspended December 2022, unresolved as of November 2023
Keywords
digital literacy, ICT-in-education, digital inclusion infrastructure

Context

Since 2018, Cabo Verde's ICT agency NOSi and the Ministry of Education built Weblab, a network of 44 equipped tech labs across 43 secondary schools, staffed by 43 trained monitors.

Activities

Labs taught robotics, ethical hacking, networking, web/mobile programming, multimedia and device repair to students, teachers and the wider community.

Results

By October 2024, close to 14,000 students had been trained in web development, robotics and digital marketing - but the programme had in fact been suspended since December 2022, with equipment locked away and monitors dismissed.

Conclusions

A well-resourced, wide-reaching rollout can still lose continuity without a clear maintenance and governance plan; no relaunch date or evaluation has been published.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Long (> 3 years)
Staffing & skills
NOSi ICT agency staff, 43 trained lab monitors

Conditions for success

  • a clear maintenance and governance plan (absent here)

Common failure modes

  • suspended since Dec 2022 without a published relaunch date or evaluation
  • monitors dismissed with compensation pending

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