I'm a former Peace Corps volunteer and wonder if you will be working with Peace Corps and other volunteer agencies (China, Australia, NZ, the UN, non-secular, etc) that are involved in education in '3rd world'.
I have noted a fair amount of corruption in both GO's and NGO's when it comes to contracting, including computer software and hardware. How will you break into this 'market' with open source software when there is so much profit via graft and nepotism associated with specifying Microsoft products. Along the same lines, are you reviewing applications that GO and NGO are presently using or wish to use that are proprietary and assembling migration tools and manuals for those who wish to change or avail themselves of a less expensive alternative.
Bill and Melinda are involved in Africa and i wonder how you reconcile promoting open source with their charitable efforts. With, against, truce, coop, ???
What about communications. Do you have plans and are you working with telecomunication portion of govts. to make it easier to implement wireless. Traditionally the P&T in many 3rd world countries has a monopoly and history of fighting competitive telecom, tooth and nail.
What about information resources. Computers are fine, but computers in a rual school, without internet access, are little more than out of context office equipment for all except the rare individual who may take an interest in programming. Will you be collecting pubic domain and copyright waived for particular use materials for the students?
In the USA, schools have a difficult time managing their IT infrastructure. The technical expertise, as limited as the requirements are, is just not there. How do you address this in a pre-industrial setting? Do you have plans to educate local 'IT professionals' in open source and requisite general C&C to support users who view the application as a tool for their other projects?
Back to communication. Are you meeting any resistance to networking these systems by those who would prefer to control news?
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I'm a former Peace Corps volunteer and wonder if you will be working with Peace Corps and other volunteer agencies (China, Australia, NZ, the UN, non-secular, etc) that are involved in education in '3rd world'.
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I have noted a fair amount of corruption in both GO's and NGO's when it comes to contracting, including computer software and hardware. How will you break into this 'market' with open source software when there is so much profit via graft and nepotism associated with specifying Microsoft products. Along the same lines, are you reviewing applications that GO and NGO are presently using or wish to use that are proprietary and assembling migration tools and manuals for those who wish to change or avail themselves of a less expensive alternative.
Bill and Melinda are involved in Africa and i wonder how you reconcile promoting open source with their charitable efforts. With, against, truce, coop, ???
What about communications. Do you have plans and are you working with telecomunication portion of govts. to make it easier to implement wireless. Traditionally the P&T in many 3rd world countries has a monopoly and history of fighting competitive telecom, tooth and nail.
What about information resources. Computers are fine, but computers in a rual school, without internet access, are little more than out of context office equipment for all except the rare individual who may take an interest in programming. Will you be collecting pubic domain and copyright waived for particular use materials for the students?
In the USA, schools have a difficult time managing their IT infrastructure. The technical expertise, as limited as the requirements are, is just not there. How do you address this in a pre-industrial setting? Do you have plans to educate local 'IT professionals' in open source and requisite general C&C to support users who view the application as a tool for their other projects?
Back to communication. Are you meeting any resistance to networking these systems by those who would prefer to control news?
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