The Africa Leadership Forum is constantly reviewing its projects and initiating new and appropriate new ones to complement those being executed. The Computer Rebuilding project is thus a complementary project with the Teachers/Instructor ICT Immersion workshop. The project is aimed at demystifying the rudiments of computers and ICTs generally, and creating a knowledgeable generation of African leaders and citizens. 

ALF acknowledges that the emerging knowledge-based-societies and or knowledge economies have been derived from their cognitive application of the uses of Information and Communication technologies (ICTs). And these uses are fast expanding everyday. ICTs have opened up new horizons for the creation and exchange of knowledge, for education and exchange of knowledge, in education and training, in promoting creativity, intercultural development and dialogue. 

The centrality of information technology in promoting education, globalization and economic growth makes it mandatory for African nations to plug into the ICT experience. Evidence abounds in the consistent positive growth of developed economies propelled by an assemblage of tools, which include the heavy and overbearing reliance on ICTs. Africa needs to avail itself of the immense opportunities of ICT in promoting social and economic growth. This is especially so with Nigeria as it pertains to improving her economic and political space in the international community.  

There is thus a need for Nigeria and Africa to take urgent steps to encourage broad based development initiatives. In particular, initiatives in education, science & technology, political and socio-cultural development should be encouraged. One way of catalysizing or bringing about this fast paced development is through initiatives that narrow down the digital divide between developed and developing nations.  

In facing some of these challenges, ALF found a partner with Digital Aid Inc, a non-governmental, not for profit firm based in the United Stats of America. The primary activity of the project of the project is to obtainment of used hard ware from organizations and individuals from the US for use in Africa where there is a soaring need for the systems. In the schools, students are taught how to dissemble and assemble the systems in training workshops. For successful students, they are acquire such systems for further use in their schools and for personal development projects.

 The goal is the overall promotion of cognitive application skills and use of ICTs for professional and educational purposes by participants and instructors as a way of improving and enhancing the use of ICTs for knowledge acquisition and the gradual bridging of the digital divide. The objective is to 

• Give participants a hands-on-approach to the use of computers
• Student participants and instructors in this project will be inducted in the rudimentary and later a versatile understanding of the computer and ICTs
• To expose participants and instructors to the opportunities that exist in the use and application of ICTs and to enable participants and instructors interact with their counterparts other parts of the world, on a firm and equal basis in ICT awareness and usage and increase their interest in the emerging “Information society”
• Introduce participants and instructors to the digital opportunities derived from using ICTs in terms of research and performance enhancement

Under the aegis of this project, ALF hopes to design and operationalise a curriculum that will enable students of Junior High schools assemble personal computers after a period of carefully structured tutelage.

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