Today, Econet Wireless, announced the launch of a new product called Econet Zero, which extends their existing initiative; EcoSchool. Econet Zero gives all Econet subscribers free access to more than 50 educational websites.
Early this year MTN South Africa introduced free access to Wikipedia but Econet has pushed the envelope further and presenting the new product, Econet’s Darlington Mandivenga said Econet Zero is a world first.
The free websites being offered through Econet Zero are in 12 categories namely Early Education, MOOCs, Recorded Lectures, Test Prep, Books, Maths, Language learning, Programming, Music, How To’s, Random Knowledge and Research.
Local content? No there aren’t any local websites or platforms available with this free service but it’s fair to say Econet has already covered the local angle through free access to local university websites. In fact, Econet Zero covers the shortcomings of free access to University Websites because this offers little value because these websites little or no educational content.
The Econet Zero service is already active and below is a full list of the zero rated websites you can access at no cost – if you are an Econet Broadband subscriber of course.
Early Education:
Abcmouse.com
Pbskids.org
Kids.nationalgeographic.com
MOOCS & Online Courses:
Coursera.org
Udacity.com
Udemy.com
Edx.org
Recorded Lecturers:
Oyc.yale.edu
Ocw.mit.edu
Webcast.berkeley.edu
Test Prep:
Actstudent.org/testprep
Sat.collegeboard.org/practice
Princetonreview.com
Kaptest.com
Books:
books.google.co
Gutenberg.org
Librivox.org
Bartleyby.com
Poemhunter.com
Math:
Wolframalpha.com
Projecteuler.net
Mathrun.net
Language Learning:
Duolingo.com
Memrise.com
Livemocha.com
Busuu.com
Verbling.com
Programming:
Codecademy.com
Learncodethehardway.com
Learnstreet.com
Htmldog.com
Tryphython.org
Rubymonk.com
Codingbat.com
Music:
Justingutiar.com
Musictheory.net
Playbassnow.com
Teoria.com
How To’s:
Instructables.com
Thedailymiscellany.com
Wikihow.com
Wonderhowto.com
Howstuffworks.com
Random Knowledge:
Mentalfloss.com
Lumosity.com
Snopes.com
Nowiknow.com
Sporcle.com
Research:
Ipl.org/ – Internet Public Library
Wikipedia.org
Encyclopedia.com
8 comments
hmm very nice, true empowerment
SOLD……….. I just went from been Econet Wireless’s greatest hater to their number 1 fan ! Well done Econet, Strive you finally really impressed me 🙂
Zvazvidhafu izvi!!
As always, Econet is a Zimbabwean company that serves the Zimbabwean people.
thats commandable, we now await Telecel to do the same.
I tried it only local institutions’ sites accessible
I tried it only local institutions’ sites only accessible
best news i’ve heard in a very long time. only problem is it doesn’t seem to be working. tried coursera, duolingo and even wikipedia, couldn’t connect to any. i would like to know if this also works with mobile apps for the stated sites. i have wikipedia, duolingo, coursera and howstuffworks apps on my android