A little over a year ago I moved out into the Pacific islands for contract work. There is heaps of work going in developing countries, and you often get paid a better contract rate than back home (donor organisation rates - and I get paid in USD$). They are also really needing anyone with IT knowledge in developing countries. The bandwidth is bad, but the cheap beer and eye candy certainly makes up for it.
Mark,
I am working in the Solomon Islands, and have been impelementing open source solutions as much as possible. I am also just finishing a Masters research project on the adoption of OSS in developing countries and there is a lot of research out there that highlights many benefits that OSS delivers in developing countries. The problem is that software piracy is so pervasive, user awareness about OSS is low, and techs' skills here are not good enough to load and support anything other than Windows, that there is no incentive for anyone to use anything other than Windows on their desktops. How do you plan to overcome the barrier of people wanting to stay with Windows?
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A little over a year ago I moved out into the Pacific islands for contract work. There is heaps of work going in developing countries, and you often get paid a better contract rate than back home (donor organisation rates - and I get paid in USD$). They are also really needing anyone with IT knowledge in developing countries. The bandwidth is bad, but the cheap beer and eye candy certainly makes up for it.
Mark, I am working in the Solomon Islands, and have been impelementing open source solutions as much as possible. I am also just finishing a Masters research project on the adoption of OSS in developing countries and there is a lot of research out there that highlights many benefits that OSS delivers in developing countries. The problem is that software piracy is so pervasive, user awareness about OSS is low, and techs' skills here are not good enough to load and support anything other than Windows, that there is no incentive for anyone to use anything other than Windows on their desktops. How do you plan to overcome the barrier of people wanting to stay with Windows?