Community Education Computer Society (CECS) is the oldest national computer Non-Profit Organisation (NPO), established in April 1985 for the technological empowerment of the historically disadvantaged. CECS was born out of a group of progressive teachers, who, having access to computers that Government had provided for the school, started investigating the possibility of using the computers to des
ign media and lessons for use within the school environment. People were asking how CECS could be fiddling with computers whilst schools were burning? How could the organisation be playing with computers when there was a struggle to be fought? Initially, the organisation agreed with this, but later realised that this was an opportune time for involvement…as confirmed by Doug Reeler, one of the founder members of CECS. Regular camps were held which became an important method of transferring skills to teachers and students. Through discussions and talks, the use of computers was placed in the social context of Apartheid education.
