[kictanet] OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE ALREADY LOADED WITH EMADDO
charles nduati
charlesnduati2002 at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Feb 12 11:16:52 EAT 2007
Hi Sang,
I thank you for congratulating us on the emaddo, I want to inform you all that being a research institution, by year end certain parts will be really manufactured in kenya. Above all, we already have school management software , library and e- learning open source softwares we can buddle together with maddo for schools.
Just place your emaddo order with us and see
Charles
CHARLES N. NDUATI
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----- Original Message ----
From: Mr. Barnabas Sang <bksang at education.go.ke>
To: charlesnduati2002 at yahoo.co.uk
Sent: Thursday, 8 February, 2007 1:02:50 PM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] adopt a school
Alex, I totally agree with you considering that
only 35% of secondary schools do not have commercial power, the rest should be
e-enabled. Approximately 10% of the Primary Schools do have
electricity.
Comprehensive Secondary Education ICT Strategy
(Sub-set of National ICT Strategy for Education and Training Developed in
2005 under the Kenya Education Sector Support Programme - KESSP) can be
developed through multi-stakeholder forum like the one Walu moderated on the OFC
(critical for much wanted connectivity for education institutions).
Regards
B.K.S.
----- Original Message -----
From:
Alex
Gakuru
To: bksang at education.go.ke
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 11:49
AM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] adopt a
school
I thank and really encourage everyone helping to make the
Internet for Everyone a reality in Kenya.
Collectively, it appears we
may actually make National ICT policy target of all secondary to have access
to the internet in 2 years and 10 months (by 2010).
Nice job Walu, at
least no keyboards or monitors got smashed:-)
Alex
"Mr.
Barnabas Sang" <bksang at education.go.ke> wrote:
Muthoni,
Thanks for the highlights on FOSS/FLOSS, which
the education sector have been following for the last three
years.
During the last one year, we have been
evaluating and inquiring for proponents of FOSS/FLOSS to come forth with a
concrete proposal that will ensure government get a solution that will
provide the features and advantages you have highlighted (perhaps another
call made here).
By the way, for the 142 Schools to be equipped
by March, all bidders are expected (mandatory feature) to have dual boot to
both Open Source OS (Ubuntu or equivalent) and Windows OS. The challenge is
that we are yet to see bidders with enough capacity to handle this kind
of deployment in our schools.
There is lots of potential on FOSS/FLOSS.
Statistic in Europe and Asia indicate to us the direction education
institutions are taking in order to ensure TCO and ROI on ICT in education
investments are justified.
I got a CD from your stand in the ongoing ICT
for Development Expo which is quite informative (productwise). Missing
though is the e-learning platforms like moodle, which could interest
enterprises and institutions of higher learning.
Otherwise, Thanks, will take note of your
advice on issues you've touched.
Kind regards
Sang
-----
Original Message -----
From:
Dorcas
Muthoni
To:
bksang at education.go.ke
Sent:
Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:35 PM
Subject:
Re: [kictanet] adopt a school
I believe that Free and Open Source Software (FOSS/FLOSS)
can a play significant role on the software acquisition frontier, capacity
building, security (no viruses) and CUTTING COSTS.
We surely do not
need discounts on software to make e-centers/ digital schools a
reality.
Muthoni
On 2/7/07, Mr.
Barnabas Sang <bksang at education.go.ke>
wrote:
Numbers are no longer an issue taking into
consideration the current momentum of e-leaders in our
amidst:
Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centers -
29,500
Primary Schools - 19,890
Secondary Schools - 4,125
Tertiary - 3,200
ICT as an
means....
The challenge is to increased access to
Secondary Education which currently stand at 60% transition (i.e.
percentage of class eight graduates to Secondary education). Big
question then is, Does ICT provide answers to such an issue? Yes....
Thus need for prioritization of ICTs targeting Secondary Schools and
Community Learning Centers to allow youth out of formal schooling to
access Secondary Education.
Research also indicates that PC presence in
schools, especially in Primary, have some influence on grade performance
(sciences and mathematics). Primary schools with ICT infrastructure can
benefit from huge knowledge-base and variety of digital content (largely
Universal) available.
For digital villages and e-schools to
succeed, the following have to be prioritized:
Content: appropriate content which
supplements or complement current curriculum. Thanks to Mr. Sammy
Kirui (Telkom) for identifying this need in ICT for Development Expo
speech. This is the number one case: Without appropriate content, ICT
becomes a luxury and hence no school management committees can justify
ICT in education investment. Will there be some significant change in
school performance after investment? Can school retention of students
(against dropouts or transfers) be sustained? Will the syllabi be
better delivered than is the case now?
Capacity building: yes digital content can
be in place and infrastructure and all software we need to have
envisaged e-institutions. Without training to manage the resources and
utilized them, the investment will be run down within no time.
Challenges of security (antivirus: experience we are observing in the
NEPAD e-Schools), malfunctioning of hardware (physiological
differences of our landscape - dust, heat, wind/ power access and
physical security) and social threats of Internet introduced in our
schools. Definitely, training is key. follow-up training is critical
as well.
ICT Integration: This is an activity that
involves integration of ICT in each subject area, making ICT a media
for instruction, tool for delivery and channel for information access.
e.g. if you're a biology teacher, we expect you to take students to a
computer lab twice a week to teach some topics which require animation
for better comprehension. If one teaches Kiswahili, we expect some
lesson in "Ngeli na sentensi..." to be done in the lab... using
Swahili version of software... This is what will demystify ICT from
being a preserve for tech teachers to being a tool for every teacher
every student rather than for computer students.
ICT Infrastructure access: the Numbers,
yes, 30,000 Schools as indicated would require some resources. For an
e-school to be effective, assuming two students will share a PC in our
schools, a 45 Student stream class would use 25 PCs per lab. If the
school is three streams, then you require a minimum of two labs. To
have sharing of materials and resources done effectively and
efficiently, a LAN is definitely required.
National and Regional ICT Support Centers:
to act as institutions where issues are resolved as they arise in our
e-institutions. Could it be content? Repair? Training follow-up?
Replacement etc. Support centre should provide some helpdesk
services.
Connectivity comes to add value to all
interventions, especially when an e-institutions realize they have
content that require others to access or they would require access to
shared resources in some portal. In some cases, Internet might be
supplementary to the above key points. Yes, we know Internet is a
resource where the learner and info-seekers would benefit. It still lies
with having content (appropriate content and security), capacity
building (on sites, portals) and Sustainable connectivity options.
Thanks to Kai and others who're sounding an alarm for provision of this
treasured resource to our esteem education institutions (for
Free!). With launch of various products by service
providers in the recent past, it is expected that connectivity will be
available in most parts of our country / continent! (CEO Safaricom and
CEO Celtel -> ICT for Dev Expo quotes). I will be more observant to
see demos of these products in a few e-institutions.
Thanks to PS InfoCom and all of you working
to make eMado (Madaraka) PC a reality. I hope we have other players
thinking on content (especially for e-education/e-learning) for various
target groups; that will indeed make the eMado attractive.
Kind regards,
B. K. Sang
ICT Department
Ministry of Education
P O Box 30040-00100
Nairobi
-----
Original Message -----
From:
Alex Gakuru
To:
bksang at education.go.ke
Cc:
David Owino
Sent:
Wednesday, February 07, 2007 5:51 PM
Subject:
Re: [kictanet] adopt a school
Whoaa... 30,000 Kenya
schools?
Gakuru
Kai Wulff <kai.wulff at kdn.co.ke> wrote:
Hello,
we are willing to ADOPT the
connectivity to all the schools for free!
Kai
-----
Original Message -----
From:
Rebecca
Wanjiku
To:
kai.wulff at kdn.co.ke
Sent:
Wednesday, February 07, 2007 15:09
Subject:
[kictanet] adopt a school
Adopting Schools
It all started with "Adopt a light", an ambitious city
lighting project. Now, Manu Chandaria, industrialist cum
philanthropist wants to apply the same concept in
ICTs.
Speaking at the ICT for Development Expo opening
ceremony on February 7, Chandaria challenged Kenyans to adopt
schools and make sure they can access computers.
"You can change the face of your village school. Just go
there and donate a computer. You can change the face of Kenya,"
Chandaria said.
He also disclosed that he will finance a digital training
centre in Mariakani. The centre will be expected to act as a base
to establish digital villages in coastal area. One digital village
will cost approximately shs 140,000 (USD 2000).
ends
Rebecca
Wanjiku,
journalist,
p.o box 33515,
Nairobi.00600
Kenya.
Tel. 254 720 318
925
blog:http://beckyit.blogspot.com/
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