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Open Source: Modernizing India's education system
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| Over the last few years, open source adoption
| has been growing within India's education
| system. Five years ago, the South Indian state
| of Kerala, pioneered open source in schools
| with its famous IT@Schools project, that now
| covers three million students from the 5th-10
| standards, involves 200,000 teachers across
| 4071 schools. Since then, other Indian states
| like Karnataka, Gujarat, Assam, West Bengal
| and others have made open source a key part of
| their school education initiatives.
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http://opensource.com/government/10/4/oss-one-best-tools-modernizing-india-education-system
Time for nonprofits to leave proprietary fundraising software systems behind
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| The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today
| announced that CiviCRM has earned its
| recommendation as a fully featured donor and
| contact management system for nonprofits.
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http://www.fsf.org/news/nonprofit-fundraising-civicrm
Recent:
India, Sierra Leone place OLPC orders
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| India has ordered 250,000 laptops from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
| organization, while a human rights organization will supply 5,000 OLPC
| machines to Sierra Leone.
|
| [...]
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| News of the laptop project in Sierra Leone comes as research teams in Kenya,
| Nigeria and Zimbabwe release findings that the Asus Eee PC netbook is a
| better choice for African nations than the XO laptop. Asus is better suited
| to individual owners and users in rural Africa who need low-power PCs,
| researchers found.
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| They ranked the Asus Eee first for the needs of Africa, followed by Intel's
| Classmate, OLPC's XO, the Inveno Computing Station and Ncomputing's X300.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2009/042409-india-sierra-leone-place-olpc.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
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