Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:59:58 +0200https://english.radio.cz/pr-firms-shown-door-internet-schools-project-8065532© 2026 Radio Prague International It was in the year 2000 that the Social Democrat government first proposed its ambitious Internet for Schools Project, a project aimed at increasing computer literacy among schoolchildren throughout the Czech Republic by providing 230,000 computers and internet connections for schools. While ambitious and certainly positive overall, the project has not been free of controversy, with the government failing to meet an important deadline concerning tenders for project suppliers Autocont and Czech Telecom. Later, the former Finance Minister criticised the project's soaring costs as disadvantageous for the state. Now, the new Education Minister Petra Buzkova has added fuel to the controversy by cancelling contracts with two public relations companies involved in creating media campaigns for the Internet for Schools project, allegedly because millions of crowns were being wasted. Jan Velinger has this report. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/pocitac_internet.jpg?timestamp=1697464204 https://english.radio.cz/pr-firms-shown-door-internet-schools-project-8065532 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9