Econet announces Econet Zero: free access to these 50+ educational websites

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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

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8 comments

  1. Zim Inov8

    hmm very nice, true empowerment

  2. Trevor Sibanda

    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 🙂

  3. Vahombe

    Zvazvidhafu izvi!!

  4. Peter Raeth

    As always, Econet is a Zimbabwean company that serves the Zimbabwean people.

  5. MI5

    thats commandable, we now await Telecel to do the same.

  6. paulas

    I tried it only local institutions’ sites accessible

  7. paulas

    I tried it only local institutions’ sites only accessible

  8. Anonymous

    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

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