Background:
It is a well known fact that children today are the leaders tomorrow. As such, how we want the future generation to live, study, work and play is a factor of the investment deployed on them today. A tool of the 21st Century capable of determining the capacities, resourcefulness, proficiencies and competitiveness of 21st Century generations is the computer. The intrinsic attributes of a computer system like large storage capacity, speed, accuracy and error free repetitiveness makes it an indispensable tool for all ages and operations. For education purpose, this is no doubt an indispensable tool that should not only be deployed in tertiary institutions but more importantly at the foundation levels – primary and secondary schools.

It is with a mind to address this important need that ITAN is refocusing on its earlier initiative – Computer In School Initiative (OS-CISI), first launched in 2001 but now rebranded and relaunched as Old Students Computer In School Initiative (OS-CISI). The idea of mobilizing Old Students to be at the vanguard of this initiative is the reality that has dawn on everyone that government alone cannot
do it all. Therefore, under the OS-CISI, partnership is solicited across the entire spectrum of the Nigerian entity to include the Federal Government, the State Governments, the Local Government, Corporate organizations, Multinationals,NGOs, CEOs, well meaning Nigerians who once experienced primary and secondary education and would like to effect a difference for future generations.
This initiative is projected to be executed in three phases over a period of 7 years (2008 – 2015) and it is to deliver more than 1,000,000 PCs (fairly used/brand new) during the period.