[kictanet] M$ Vendor Lockin In Kenyan Schools

[Patrick Mburu]

This is great news, does this cover Private and public schools?

Regards,
Patrick

On 30/05/07, Dorcas Muthoni <dmuthoni at gmail.com> wrote:
> Microsoft waives software license fees for schools
>
> Schools  in Kenya will have more access to computer technology, with a free
> license deal from the world's leading software producer.
> Microsoft Corporation  forged the deal through the Ministry of Education to
> allow local schools and higher education institutions to use the company's
> software free of charge.
> Under the arrangement, Microsoft will work with organisations currently in
> charge of supplying computers to the institutions to first install the
> programmes on the machines .
> Learning institutions in the developing world have often been held back from
> using legitimate copies of common software such as Microsoft's Windows
> operating system and Office application suite because of license fees that
> are locally unaffordable.
>
> With the free licenses, schools can use the computer technology to build
> capacity among teachers and students.
> Mr Mark East, the general manager for Microsoft's International Education
> Solutions Group, said the main drive for offering the fees waiver, was the
> lack of computer uptake in the region's education system.
>
> Mr East said the company learnt a lesson from Ghana, where its approach to
> increasing computer usage in schools ran into trouble.
> "In Ghana our approach first was to build capacity for teachers but we came
> to learn that even after training the teachers they still didn't have this
> basic tool—the computer," he said.
>
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