Linux Handhelds in African Schools

blastard writes "Seems some students will be getting to use their Linux handhelds in school without getting into trouble. BBCNews has a story on fifth-graders in Kenya who will be using "E-slates" from EduVision. The EduVision site is available in German, English and Swahili."

Comments

Does it run Ubuntu...?

[Shturmovik]

Ha. Ha. Ha. Sigh...I kill me...

This will be great

[commodoresloat]

for children in some countries who want to make contacts in the US to help them smuggle millions of dollars out of their war-torn country

Am I getting old...

[crypty]

Its amazing how far things are getting at this stage... My hats off to the fine people who are out to make this sort of education possible for kids around the world. Its just a tad scarey that in my day we only had home made paint and a cave wall... although there was that posh kid with his abacus.

Re:Wish we had these...

[aussie_a]

Give computers to a group of school kids in Dallas, Tokyo, Africa or anywhere and one or two curious of them will understand the in and outs of them in notime.

But give them a spell-checker and they'll still be wondering how to use it after 14 years.

Re:Kenya != whole of africa

[TrappedByMyself]

The US hasn't fought a major war in Sub-Saharan Africa yet. We haven't killed the evil doers and brought liberty to the people. Of course they're still mentally handicapped. Duh!