On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 i...@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. Given the amount of time that has passed between FOSS adoption in these states it would be good to have an independent study done to assess the improvements in place and, also the potential loopholes that need to be addressed. I note that you did not mention PLoS or, BOAI like initiatives - is there a a report somewhere about progress along those lines when it comes to India ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
