Uncertainty over Microsoft schools deal
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| The current agreement between the Department of Education and Microsoft
| that allowed South African public schools free Microsoft licences is
| soon coming up for renewal. Whether the deal will be renewed and what
| the details of the deal will be, still remain uncertain.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1448
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Education dept eyes stronger free software policy
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| South Africa's education department may re-look at its policies
| regarding free and open source software and pursue a stronger open
| source strategy in light of the government's free software strategy
| adopted in February this year.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1460
Nepad e-Schools kicks off in SA
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| Maripe is one of six schools in SA in which computer labs and
| audio-visual centres will be installed as part of the demo project,
| which includes 18 African countries. The initiative was launched in
| March 2003 and aims to see the digitisation of all of the estimated
| 600 000 schools in Africa by 2013.
|
| [...]
|
| The computers have been equipped with a Linux operating system,
| e-mail client, browser and office productivity suite, and
| educational software that assists in the learning process, as
| well as the administration and maintenance of the school.
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http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/business/2007/0704181037.asp?A=BUS&S=Business&T=News&O=ST
http://tinyurl.com/2n8pa8
A critical eye on the glamorous Open Source
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| Open source remains one of this year's hot IT topics. Last month the
| government announced the formal adoption of its open source policy and
| strategy in a cabinet statement declaring that the government would migrate
| to open source software.
|
| [...]
|
| In its announcement last month, the government also stated that all
| new software developed for, or by, government will be based on open
| standard. We congratulate it for this excellent initiative.
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http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=6117
[South African] Government switches to Open Source
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| Cape Town - Cabinet has approved a policy and strategy to implement
| Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in government, government
| communications head Themba Maseko said on Thursday.
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http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2888&iArticleId=3695987
http://tinyurl.com/2c8lbz
Nonprofit bolsters IT program for low-tech nations
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| Inveneo created a new Linux-based operating system for the S50, and
| a complete open source desktop application suite, including instant
| messaging, word processing, spreadsheet and Web browser.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/041107-nonprofit-low-tech-nations.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
http://tinyurl.com/yq2ls6
AMD brings Linux to East Africans
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| Inveneo CTO Jeff Wishnie said that Inveneo created its own Linux
| port in-house, incorporating open source software packages such
| as OpenOffice, Firefox, Sylpheed, and Asterisk. Inveneo Linux also
| includes rdesktop, a Microsoft RDP (remote desktop protocol)
| client, enabling the clients to host Windows-only applications,
| such as some distance learning programs, when necessary.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6428796596.html
Tapping a world of schoolroom innovation
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| SchoolTool began development in 2000 and is funded by Mark Shuttleworth,
| of the South African-based Shuttleworth Foundation, creator of the
| free Ubuntu operating system.
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http://www.pbn.com/stories/24545.html
Open source project aids South African students
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| The non-profit tuXlab program, which provides network connectivity
| along with tuXlab GNU/Linux desktops and other open-source software
| to South Africa high schools, integrated 10 more schools into its
| wireless network on Feb. 9. The project reportedly has now connected
| tuXlabs in 50 schools near Cape Town.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3015125106.html
Back to school - tuXlab reviewed
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| tuXlabs is a freely distributed educational software package running
| on a specialised Ubuntu derivative which has been rolled out to
| schools across South Africa and serves over 160,000 learners.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1397
One Laptop sighted in Cape Town
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| The laptop, a beta version of the final product, sports a green
| casing, a liquid-proof keyboard, a couple of dust covers for the
| ports and the Sugar operating system which is based on Fedora Core 6.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1466
Debate widens over over deploying computers in the developing world
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| The controversy boiled over on Saturday at a meeting where Craig
| Barrett, chairman of Intel, squared off with Nicholas Negroponte,
| the former director of the MIT Media Laboratory and head of the
| nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child, which is focusing
| on the 1.2 billion children in the developing world.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/28/business/cheap.php
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