its funded by the Rural xx xx Fund (the extra tax on your airtime that is to make sure there is connectivity in non-urban areas too)
so, its a pure UCC thing, it seems. > The biggest problem we face is the current curriculum is Windows only. > We would need to change that in order for the students to be able to > learn using FLOSS. > > Is this a UCC not a MoE deal? > > Simon > > On 20 September 2011 15:40, Reinier Battenberg > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Today there is a Bid Notice in the Monitor to supply 130 schools in Uganda > > with computers. There is not much more information in the advertisement. > > > > For the interest of the students, I think it would be very benifitial if the > > computers would run FLOSS. There are a few arguments for that, which I think > > UCC should take into consideration when assigning the final bid. > > > > This being the LUG, i presume there are quite a number of people on this list > > that agree with me. > > > > What can we, as a community do, to get our point across to UCC and allow these > > 130 schools to run software that they can maintain, learn, translate and > > extend? > > > > -- > > rgds, > > > > Reinier Battenberg > > Director > > Mountbatten Ltd. > > +256 758 801 749 > > www.mountbatten.net > > http://twitter.com/batje > > http://twitter.com/mapuganda > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] > > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way. > > > > > > -- > Simon Vass > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way. > -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 758 801 749 www.mountbatten.net http://twitter.com/batje http://twitter.com/mapuganda _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
