Does that make the parents foot the cost of the eBooks or is the govt gonna take care of that? Oh, and with that I can see the death of the Printing Press (for the Book publishers) beckoning! They should start thinking e-Publishing...On 19 August 2013 16:02, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/odhiambo%40gmail.comI am also in the Kindle camp. First of all provide digital copies of all those text books from the publishers and load them ontu those gadgets. It is disheartening to watch kids in the morning deforming their backs carrying 20 text books that are less than 20mb in content. Then they can have exercise books to scribble their hearts away but the course material can remain in the tablets.On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Adam Nelson <adam@varud.com> wrote:
Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/mwangy%40gmail.comOne can only wish that they would go further down the Kindle road instead of laptops. Kindles are extremely durable, very simple, have multi-week battery life and are cheaper than laptops ($200).Plus, they focus on the main problem - access to high quality, ad-free educational content.There are still deficiencies like the fact that children can't use a Kindle for writing, but writing can be done with pen & paper like virtually everybody else on this list used in primary school.--Kili.io - OpenStack for Africa: https://angel.co/kili-ioMusings: https://twitter.com/varudAbout Adam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:08 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/adam%40varud.comHiRobert Yawe
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Subject: Re: [kictanet] Laptop project: Pre-bid Conference
This video talks about three points:a) Bidders want to extend the timeline: Why would government like to extend the timeline? Will they still meet the delivery timeline?How many laptops per minute one would manufacture to meet the delivery timeline of two months after award of the contract? Do they have existing inventory of exactly same specs?b) Bidders would like the government to test the solution:Is there a specific procedure that government(MOE) will use to test the offered solution in real situation before paying so much money? I think that it's important to get the laptop, software and content piloted in real schools/situation before we spend 14.7 Billion Ksh tax payer money. Why is this step skipped? Is it not important?I also read an article that government refused to give benefit to the youth under this transaction claiming that it's an international tender.Members? Thoughts?Ray Keller
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