ICT in darkest Africa?

My husband is in Nigeria for four days. In the Sunday news paper he read a very disheartening fact. The pass rate for metric is a mere 24%. In his conversations with his colleagues in Lagos, it was clear that very little to no ICT is available in schools. This applies to mainly government schools.
A further revelation that shocked us was the amount of manual work that is still done. Big business like national airlines, shipping lines and even some corporate companies still use manual paper based processes to process daily transactions.
I need to add that the situation is getting better than what it was 5 years ago, but he pace at which it is happening will not help to close the gap between "Haves" and "Have nots".
One of the managers is originally from Amsterdam and said that this is sharp contrast of what they experienced in The Netherlands. There ICT is a norm and very little classes and schools work without it.
The Global village might be growing but so does the gap between Africa and the rest of the world.

My message on this topic is purely just this: We need to get the use of ICT in South Africa online, active and alive before we end up somewhere in darkest Africa.......