Mindset
Channel 309
Mindset Network came into being as the brainchild of the then-CEO of Liberty Foundation, Mr Hylton Appelbaum. Many changes have taken place in the educational space and after approaching corporate and government leaders; Mindset Network was created in 2002.
Mindset Network is a non-profit organisation formed to improve education and health in Africa.
Mindset develops, produces, sources and distributes content in digital format. This content is distributed via broadcast television, the Internet and physical media. Distribution technologies include satellite, terrestrial networks, telecoms infrastructure and storage media.
In Southern Africa, the content is aligned to the national curriculum of the public schools system and in subjects that include Mathematics, Maths Literacy, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, English as a First Additional Language, Information Technology, Computer Applications Technology, Natural Sciences, Geography and Accounting for Grade 8 – 12 learners.
In Africa, the content is aligned to the Cambridge International Curriculum and in subjects that include Mathematics, The Sciences and English as a First Additional Language and covering the last 3 years of school.
Since its inception, the organisation has grown in leaps and bounds having developed hundreds of hours of content. Mindset has strategic partnerships with the Departments of Basic Education, the Department of Health, the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and the Department of Science and Technology. It is supported by its leading founding partners Liberty and Standard Bank Foundation. Other founding partners include the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Multichoice Africa, Intelsat, Sunday Times, Sentech and Telkom Foundation.
From 2004, through the organisation’s health programme, Mindset installed over 780 satellite broadcast channels receiving equipment in public health clinics and hospitals for visitors to watch health-related broadcast programmes while waiting for treatment at those facilities. This channel reaches around 5 million people monthly.