Hi All,<br>
<br>
Jus A few comments.......<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mr. Barnabas Sang</b> <<a href="mailto:bksang@education.go.ke">bksang@education.go.ke</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Muthoni,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks for the highlights on FOSS/FLOSS, which the
education sector have been following for the last three years.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">During the last one year, we have been evaluating
and inquiring for proponents of FOSS/FLOSS</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Arial" size="2">who (persons/group)exactly have you been working with on this?
</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Arial" size="2">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).</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br>
This is a big realisation to all of us and we are behind you 100% good work here!<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br>
<br>
There is edubuntu that has a sort of elearning platform..............you could link up with me I get you a copy. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Otherwise, Thanks, will take note of your advice on
issues you've touched.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Kind regards</font></div><span class="sg">
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Sang</font></div></span></div></blockquote><div><br>
<br>
<br>
Kind Regards, <br>
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<span class="q"><div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">----- Original Message -----
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<b>From:</b>
<a title="dmuthoni@gmail.com" href="mailto:dmuthoni@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Dorcas
Muthoni</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b> <a title="bksang@education.go.ke" href="mailto:bksang@education.go.ke" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
bksang@education.go.ke</a> </div></span><div><span class="e" id="q_1109fc694a6e349f_4">
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:35
PM</div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] adopt a
school</div>
<div><br></div>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.<br><br>We surely do not need
discounts on software to make e-centers/ digital schools a
reality.<br><br>Muthoni<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mr. Barnabas
Sang</b> <<a href="mailto:bksang@education.go.ke" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">bksang@education.go.ke</a>>
wrote:</span>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Numbers are no longer an issue taking into
consideration the current momentum of e-leaders in our amidst:</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centers -
29,500</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Primary Schools - 19,890</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Secondary Schools - 4,125</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Tertiary - 3,200</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>ICT as an
means....</strong></font></div>
<div><strong><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></strong> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">For digital villages and e-schools to succeed,
the following have to be prioritized:</font></div>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">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? </font>
</li><li><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font>
</li><li><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font>
</li><li><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font>
</li><li><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></li></ul>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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 <strong>Free!</strong>). 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.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Kind regards,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">B. K. Sang</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">ICT Department</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Ministry of Education</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">P O Box 30040-00100</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Nairobi</font></div>
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<b>From:</b>
<a title="alex.gakuru@yahoo.com" href="mailto:alex.gakuru@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Alex Gakuru</a>
</div></span><span>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b>
<a title="bksang@education.go.ke" href="mailto:bksang@education.go.ke" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">bksang@education.go.ke</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Cc:</b>
<a title="david.owino@kdn.co.ke" href="mailto:david.owino@kdn.co.ke" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">David Owino</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Sent:</b>
Wednesday, February 07, 2007 5:51 PM</div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b>
Re: [kictanet] adopt a school</div>
<div><br></div></span>
<div><span>Whoaa... 30,000 Kenya schools?
<br><br>Gakuru<br><br><b><i>Kai Wulff <<a href="mailto:kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke</a>></i></b> wrote:
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">Hello,</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">we are willing to ADOPT the connectivity
to all the schools for free!</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">Kai</font></div>
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<b>From:</b>
<a title="rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com" href="mailto:rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Rebecca
Wanjiku</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b>
<a title="kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke" href="mailto:kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Sent:</b>
Wednesday, February 07, 2007 15:09</div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b>
[kictanet] adopt a school</div>
<div><br></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Adopting Schools</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">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.</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">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.</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">"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.</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">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).</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">ends </font></div><br><br>Rebecca
Wanjiku,<br>journalist,<br>p.o box 33515,
<br>Nairobi.00600<br>Kenya.<br><br>Tel. 254 720 318 925<br><br>blog:<a href="http://beckyit.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://beckyit.blogspot.com/</a>
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