ICDL to be Gazetted: Is Open Office recognized?
KTN's Business news says that the government will only recognize (and will gazette) computer literacy as someone who at least has ICDL. Microsoft was mentioned (by the guy narrating the news). Dr.Ndemo confirmed (in the news clip) ICDL as Spreadsheet, Word processor, Presentation and Database. Open Office has similar packages. Can Dr. Ndemo at least confirm whether Open Office and any other office packages are recognized by government? or in other words what content makes an ICDL package? I find it mind-blowingly strange that Microsoft's Office products would be the only ones recognized as ICDL (as mentioned in the news clip). O_o?
I have never heard of any government mandating a "computer literacy standard" leave alone unilaterally without any consultations with stakeholders. In fact a "computer literacy standard" exists nowhere because there is no accepted definition for "computer literacy". Maybe the Government is heading back to the comfortable days of "command and control" in ICT Policy where pronouncements are simply made from ivory towers by people who know eveything and need to consult no-one. Let's hope I am wrong. Waudo On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:40 -0800, "wesley kirinya" <kiriinya2000@yahoo.com> wrote: KTN's Business news says that the government will only recognize (and will gazette) computer literacy as someone who at least has ICDL. Microsoft was mentioned (by the guy narrating the news). Dr.Ndemo confirmed (in the news clip) ICDL as Spreadsheet, Word processor, Presentation and Database. Open Office has similar packages. Can Dr. Ndemo at least confirm whether Open Office and any other office packages are recognized by government? or in other words what content makes an ICDL package? I find it mind-blowingly strange that Microsoft's Office products would be the only ones recognized as ICDL (as mentioned in the news clip). O_o?
Waudo, We have been discussing this with a committee over a long period of time. As we intensify the digital village training we must have basic open standards and that is what we did. Ndemo Sent from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: "waudo siganga" <emailsignet@mailcan.com> Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:43:09 To: <bitange@jambo.co.ke> Cc: Alex Gakuru<gakuru@gmail.com>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] ICDL to be Gazetted: Is Open Office recognized? _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: bitange@jambo.co.ke Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/bitange%40jambo.co.ke
Dr. Ndemo, Is there any press release on this that we can refer to? Kindly lets have that so we can all move towards the same direction. Of course we all know that there are very many entities across the country training on office productivity suites but no one knows whether they graduate trainees with proficient skill sets. We all support the efforts for competitive and standardized trainings that are clearly vendor neutral. Many thanks, Muthoni On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:08 AM, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
Waudo, We have been discussing this with a committee over a long period of time. As we intensify the digital village training we must have basic open standards and that is what we did.
Ndemo Sent from my BlackBerry®
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Hi All, It may be of some comfort to know that the ICDL certificate does not indicate which software one used (though to pass the tests one must use one of the office software recognised by ICDL including Microsoft, Lotus or open source). It only shows you are proficient in Word processing, Spreadsheets, Database, etc. This means one can be ICDL certified by being proficient in Open source office productivity software like OpenOffice.org as ICDL has testing for this suite. http://www.openicdl.org.za. In my opinion, the government has done well to set the computer literacy standard to ICDL, and from the foregoing, there should be no worry whether it is Microsoft Office or Open Office, as any will lead to ICDL certification. Kind regards, Jotham --- On Tue, 11/3/09, wesley kirinya <kiriinya2000@yahoo.com> wrote: From: wesley kirinya <kiriinya2000@yahoo.com> Subject: [kictanet] ICDL to be Gazetted: Is Open Office recognized? To: jokilimo@yahoo.com Cc: "Alex Gakuru" <gakuru@gmail.com>, "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 11:40 AM KTN's Business news says that the government will only recognize (and will gazette) computer literacy as someone who at least has ICDL. Microsoft was mentioned (by the guy narrating the news). Dr.Ndemo confirmed (in the news clip) ICDL as Spreadsheet, Word processor, Presentation and Database. Open Office has similar packages. Can Dr. Ndemo at least confirm whether Open Office and any other office packages are recognized by government? or in other words what content makes an ICDL package? I find it mind-blowingly strange that Microsoft's Office products would be the only ones recognized as ICDL (as mentioned in the news clip). O_o? -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: jokilimo@yahoo.com Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/jokilimo%40yahoo.com
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Dorcas Muthoni -
Jotham Kilimo Mwale -
waudo siganga -
wesley kirinya