Getting started
An initial Information Literacy course has been run twice by the LINK Centre at Wits University (August - November 1998 and January - March 1999). In these courses 192 people were trained, and 102 (53%) of them were women. The vast majority of these people had never touched a computer before the course, and all were competent word-processing computer users at the end. At least five of the people trained obtained jobs where these ICT skills were relevant.

Following these initial course, there is now a great demand for further such courses. With no formal marketing (just relying on word-of-mouth) the LINK centre currently has a waiting list for this Information Literacy course of over 550 people. This experience has lead to the formulation of this project to expand the number of training points in Gauteng.

Partnerships
The InfoLit project has partnerships with a number of recognised institutions that it works with. These partnerships allow the project to develop courses of the highest quality and provide training to InfoLit centres that will emulate this exceptional course standards. The partners are also able to help the project develop in a way that will be of greatest benefit to the communities that are served. The current partners in this project are: