Pretty cool stuff. Textbooks are very expensive in Africa. But my enthusiasm was tempered when reading...
"Furthermore, because our network and software is proprietary, demand for stolen eSlates will be minimal - they simply will not work for uses other than those for which they were designed."
They show they haven't really understood the GPL. But they're also saying is that people don't want proprietary software?:)
I'm currently working for Geekcorps Mali. So I can say they're authentic:) You could donate to Geekcorps (sorry for the asp link, here in Mali proprietary software users are put away in the basement, and we're even developing a free software distro, Kunnafonix...).
I'm also setting up a side project: getting more resources in Mali's most spoken language, Bambara. So I came up with the idea to kick start the Bambara Wikipedia, with the help of gadgets you geeks forgot about long time ago (one month ago when you bought your new iPod..)
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bambara_Wikipedia_L aunch_Competition (hopefully online right now:)
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I'm currently working for Geekcorps Mali. So I can say they're authentic :) You could donate to Geekcorps (sorry for the asp link, here in Mali proprietary software users are put away in the basement, and we're even developing a free software distro, Kunnafonix...).
I'm also setting up a side project: getting more resources in Mali's most spoken language, Bambara. So I came up with the idea to kick start the Bambara Wikipedia, with the help of gadgets you geeks forgot about long time ago (one month ago when you bought your new iPod..)
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bambara_Wikipedia_L aunch_Competition (hopefully online right now :)