Joe,<br>
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I hope that this links will give you a better insight,in regards to your question.<br>
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<a href="http://www.google.com/a/edu/">http://www.google.com/a/edu/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.dashes.com/anil/2006/08/28/google_office_g">http://www.dashes.com/anil/2006/08/28/google_office_g</a><br>
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Kind Regards,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:jmanthi@gmail.com">jmanthi@gmail.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:jmanthi@gmail.com">jmanthi@gmail.com</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;">Members<br>How
is this different from anywhere else in the whole wide world. These
tools that seem to be exciting people is available to anyone who can
access <a href="http://google.com">google.com</a> anywhere in the world.<br><br>How is this a benefit to these colleges?<br><br>Joe<br>Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: "Judy Okite" <
<a href="mailto:judyokite@gmail.com">judyokite@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:14:45<br>To:Joseph Manthi <<a href="mailto:jmanthi@gmail.com">jmanthi@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: [kictanet] Fwd: [Idlelo2] Google and East african Universities
<br><br>This really looks good !<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Dapo Ladimeji <<a href="mailto:dapo@ladimeji.co.uk">dapo@ladimeji.co.uk</a>><br>Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:04:08 +0100<br>Subject: [Idlelo2] Google and East african Universities
<br>To: <a href="mailto:idlelo2@fossfa.net">idlelo2@fossfa.net</a><br><br><br> East African universities to gain from web tools deal<br><br>The deal will give more students access to communication technologies<br>Kimani Chege
<br>26 March 2007<br>Source: SciDev.Net<br><br>[NAIROBI] A software deal signed between universities in East Africa and<br>the US-based internet giant Google will improve access to web-based<br>communications for staff and students.
<br><br>Under the deal, Rwanda's government ministries and three Rwandan<br>universities � the National University of Rwanda, the Kigali Institute<br>for Education and the Kigali Institute for Science and Technology � as
<br>well as Kenya's University of Nairobi (UoN) will have free access to<br>Google Apps.<br><br>The applications include email, shared calendars, instant messaging and<br>word processing software, along with the associated support services
<br>provided by the corporation.<br><br>The deal, signed last week (19 March), looks set to improve internal<br>communications at UoN and facilitate research, particularly for studies<br>undertaken in remote areas.<br><br>
The head of information and communication technology at UoN, Elijah<br>Omwenga, says the email application Gmail will be particularly useful in<br>reducing the bandwidth required for internal communications by its<br>50,000 students and staff.
<br><br>He told SciDev.Net that the institution was facing major challenges in<br>acquiring enough bandwidth.<br><br>"This means our students and staff can access mail from the campuses as<br>well as from outside. This will facilitate communicating all research,
<br>even when it is being done in remote areas," said Omwenga.<br><br>However, he called for Google to come up with specific details of the<br>offer, so that Google and the UoN can develop research schemes geared<br>
towards Africa's needs � such as developing software in local languages<br>and making it more relevant to the local audience.<br><br>About 20,000 users in Rwanda will have access to Google Apps in the<br>first phase. This will be followed by a broader countrywide introduction.
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