Is SA Department of Education taking a reasonble step?
Here is an article talking about the South African department of education banning the use of Open Source software in schools. http://www.webaddict.co.za/2013/10/09/south-africa-education-department-bans... John Kariuki
Hi, I just read this story on Slashdot. Link: http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/10/09/1648218/south-african-education-depa... One comment that caught my eye: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4319437&cid=45083711 On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:20 PM, John Kariuki < ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Here is an article talking about the South African department of education banning the use of Open Source software in schools.
http://www.webaddict.co.za/2013/10/09/south-africa-education-department-bans...
John Kariuki
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That is a tragedy for South Africa. Locking to MS Office suite, and Windows for that matter is anti-competition and backwards. It's a shame for a country that produced the world renown Ubuntu Linux. For Delphi, it's not as bad since what we need is kids introduced to programming concepts. Pascal like code is very good for beginners for it's English like notation is less abstract. But the students should be able to branch out to more robust and modern languages. I wonder what computer language is predominant in Kenyan Secondary School certificate. On 10/10/2013, Brian Ngure <brian.ngure@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I just read this story on Slashdot. Link: http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/10/09/1648218/south-african-education-depa...
One comment that caught my eye: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4319437&cid=45083711
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:20 PM, John Kariuki < ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Here is an article talking about the South African department of education banning the use of Open Source software in schools.
http://www.webaddict.co.za/2013/10/09/south-africa-education-department-bans...
John Kariuki
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The same African curse. You have a homegrown OS of International recognition, Ubuntu, for free, but you want to spend money to acquire another solution, developed in another country at a cost! Simple, there is no money to be made if you recommend Ubuntu so you recommend that which will give you the 'cut'! On the other hand Delphi is a super platform and land language to start-off with, clean and teaches the art of programming quite elegantly. Regards On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> wrote:
That is a tragedy for South Africa. Locking to MS Office suite, and Windows for that matter is anti-competition and backwards. It's a shame for a country that produced the world renown Ubuntu Linux.
For Delphi, it's not as bad since what we need is kids introduced to programming concepts. Pascal like code is very good for beginners for it's English like notation is less abstract. But the students should be able to branch out to more robust and modern languages. I wonder what computer language is predominant in Kenyan Secondary School certificate.
On 10/10/2013, Brian Ngure <brian.ngure@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I just read this story on Slashdot. Link:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/10/09/1648218/south-african-education-depa...
One comment that caught my eye: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4319437&cid=45083711
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:20 PM, John Kariuki < ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Here is an article talking about the South African department of education banning the use of Open Source software in schools.
http://www.webaddict.co.za/2013/10/09/south-africa-education-department-bans...
John Kariuki
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Maybe their policy makers feel their abundant and various mineral resources suffice to drive their economic future --- as opposed to investing in knowledge for the masses? If so, would they be justified to ask rest of Africa to "shut up!- we are just fine with closed knowledge."? On Thursday, October 10, 2013 9:27 PM, John Kariuki <ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: Here is an article talking about the South African department of education banning the use of Open Source software in schools. http://www.webaddict.co.za/2013/10/09/south-africa-education-department-bans... John Kariuki _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/ict.researcher%40yahoo... The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
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