[kictanet] ICDL to be Gazetted: Is Open Office recognized?

[Jotham Kilimo Mwale]

Hi All,

It may be of some comfort to know that the ICDL certificate does not indicate which software one used (though to pass the tests one must use one of the office software recognised by ICDL including Microsoft, Lotus or open source). It only shows you are proficient in Word processing, Spreadsheets, Database, etc. This means one can be ICDL certified by being proficient in Open source office productivity software like OpenOffice.org as ICDL has testing for this suite. 

http://www.openicdl.org.za.

In my opinion, the government has done well to set the computer literacy standard to ICDL, and from the foregoing, there should be no worry whether it is Microsoft Office or Open Office, as any will lead to ICDL certification.

Kind regards,

Jotham


--- On Tue, 11/3/09, wesley kirinya <kiriinya2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: wesley kirinya <kiriinya2000 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [kictanet] ICDL to be Gazetted: Is Open Office recognized?
To: jokilimo at yahoo.com
Cc: "Alex Gakuru" <gakuru at gmail.com>, "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 11:40 AM

KTN's Business news says that the government will only recognize (and will gazette) computer literacy as someone who at least has ICDL. Microsoft was mentioned (by the guy narrating the news). Dr.Ndemo confirmed (in the news clip) ICDL as Spreadsheet, Word processor, Presentation and Database. Open Office has similar packages. Can Dr. Ndemo at least confirm whether Open Office and any other office packages are recognized by government? or in other words what content makes an ICDL package? I find it mind-blowingly strange that Microsoft's Office products would be the only ones recognized as ICDL (as mentioned in the news clip).

O_o?

 


      
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