This is a fast translation of a Danish press release from today. Sorry
about the clumsy English, but I made it very fast.
I'll try to catch up with some more details on Wednesday.
Med venlig hilsen - best regards, Leif Lodahl
Native-Language coordinator DA.OpenOffice.org
Mail: [email protected]
Blog: http://lodahl.blogspot.com/
12-12-08: Free computer software for students and teachers
Absolutely free and for free use for all students and teachers at the
municipal elementary schools in municipality of Tønder on Wednesday
around noon handed over a so-called USB key - a little gimmick to tuck
into the computer, and there you are: a hwole line of computer programs
for free use - including programs for word processing and programs for
the treatment of sound, images and much, much more.
Municipality of Tønder wants to be in the frontline when it comes to the
use of IT in schools. So we are, and we have been for a long time- and
now we deliver this "stick" so that all students have a common IT
platform to work on. THis way we can exchange pictures, sounds, text and
virtually everything else, "says Erik S. Kristensen and Bo Ramsing, both
educational IT consultants for schools in the municipality of Tønder.
As far as we know, Tønder is the first municipality in Denmark, which
provide free software for all schoolchildren. The project has been in
collaboration with the Center for Software
(http://www.softwareborsen.dk) in IT and Telecom, and there is
particular so-called "open source" programs, ie programs that are free.
By pooling their programs and extradite them to a single USB stick for
all, we ensuring that all municipal students and teachers can have
access to the same programs both at school and at home. This gives the
opportunity to both to use the tools in connection with the school, and
better able to "talk" via electronics, continuing the two IT consultants.
Each USB stick has a capacity of a Giga-byte, is beautifully designed in
aluminum-look, and with "Tønder municipality" printed.
For Tønder Municipality has been a less costly to manufacture - a cost
that we have shared with IT and Telecom, but ultimately this is a very
good investment in our pupils - and in the solid Tønder Municipality
image as a pioneering municipality in the IT field, says Erik S.
Kristensen and Bo Ramsing.
Moreover, there is great interest in the municipality of Tonder handling
and use of free programs, among others seen by traffic statistics on the
website, www.skolekonsulenterne.dk
Tønder is in front
At the IT and Tele Agency Authority's Center for Software is caseworker
Morten Hansen Kristoffer very pleased with the initiative of the
municipality Tønder, and he hopes it can be an "eye-opener" for other
municipalities in relation to the use of Open Source.
We received a request from Tønder, and was not a moment doubt that the
project was really good. We went into it - not least because Tønder
municipality pays tribute to the principle that open source is used -
"if it is good enough", and it is certainly "good enough" in this case.
The strategy in the south of Jutland is therefore clear, which makes
Tønder municipality, which moves forward and show the way for others. It
is really exciting - and that while we can help all pupils in the
municipality Tønder a "Christmas present", we are just happy, highlights
Morten Kristoffer Hansen.
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