Education views ICT as a resource for reorganizing schooling and as a tool for whole school development. The broad vision of South African government is to design a national Informatiom Society programme, which will improve the lives of its citizens and enhance the quality of life through effective use of Information and Communications Technologies.

In the South African context, as defined in the White paper on e-Education, e-Education is " about connecting learners and teachers to each other and to professional support services, and providing platforms for learning". e-Education is more than developing computer literacy and the skills to access, manage and create information.

Success in the infusion of ICT into teaching and learning will ensure that every learner will be equipped for full participation in the knowledge society. Capacity building and ICT literacy is essential to help everyone to benefit fully from Information Society. ICTs can contibute to achieving universal education world wide, through delivery of education and training of teachers and offering improved conditions for lifelong learning, encompassing people that are outside the formal education process.

The Minister of Education declared the White Paper on e-Education on 26 Agust 2004. The White Paper outlines a vision of deploying ICT in schools to improve the quality of teaching and modernize the administration and management. The White Paper on e-Education further outlines projects that should undertake by government in order to fully reap the benefit of e-Education.

The goal of the White Paper is "to ensure that every South Afrcan learner is ICT capable by 2013".