[UgaBYTES] ICT News

[Peter Burgess]

Dear Colleagues

All sorts of things are possible IF THE INFRASTRUCTURE is present and
if the people that CONTROL the infrastructure allow it to be
accessible at affordable prices.

Up to now few places have priced the use of infrastructure to optimize
socio-economic development, rather to optimize short term profit and
government revenues ... very short-sighted ... but the norm.

The cost of use of modern infrastructure is tiny ... really tiny ...
but you would never know it by looking at the pricing.

As some of you are probably aware ... this is the sort of analysis
that is central to Community Accountancy (CA) ... but most modern
decision makers only work with their personal profit maximizing
metrics to the detrement of society as a whole.

Peter
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Peter Burgess
The Transparency and Accountability Network: Tr-Ac-Net in New York
www.tr-ac-net.org
Community Accountancy (CA)
Integrated Malaria Management Consortium (IMMC)
917 432 1191 or 212 772 6918 peterbnyc at gmail.com

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:50 AM, JOHN MAHEGERE <jmahegere at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Kiringai,
>
> I concur with you!!!
>
> Let every one of us take up that challenge as these are among the best scientific creativities that are worth emulating!
>
> John Mahegere
>
> --- On Mon, 11/3/08, Kiringai Kamau <kiringai at willpower.co.ke> wrote:
>
> From: Kiringai Kamau <kiringai at willpower.co.ke>
> Subject: Re: [UgaBYTES] ICT News
> To: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org
> Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 5:42 AM
>
>
> Humphrey,
>
> Technology breaks all barriers. Whatever you see happening in the
> Philippines with collaboration is not a confine of that region. It only
> means that there is good infrastructure that supports what the partners
> would like to use.
>
> Uganda or any Country (Including those that love feuds like Zim and Kenya-my
> country) for that matter can be partner with Oracle or any other institution
> - at least there is Microsoft around and are looking to a good national
> case.
>
> Try, only try Humphrey is all that you may need, so long as your house is in
> order and big enough to accommodate the demands of outsiders.
>
> Kiringai
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org
> [mailto:ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org] On Behalf Of mutaasa humphrey
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 3:32 PM
> To: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org
> Subject: [UgaBYTES] ICT News
>
> Hello Colleagues can this be possible in Uganda? an other developing African
> Countries
>
> Public schools in the Philippines get free ICT learning tool
>
> Another window has been opened for public school students to access 21st
> century learning tools - for free. In an agreement signed between the
> Department of Education (DepEd) and Oracle Education Foundation (OEF), some
> 50,000 public school teachers and students nationwide can now access online
> learning resources through ThinkQuest.
>
> "We need all the help we can get from the private sector to endow our
> learners with skills fit for a 21st century learner," said DepEd Secretary
> Jesli Lapus. "Our students will now have a chance to be at par with the
> world's best in terms of access to learner-driven, technology-aided
> educational tools," he added.
>
> ThinkQuest is a sponsored programme of OEF that provides free learning
> materials for primary and secondary schools around the world. With
> ThinkQuest, students can engage in collaborative learning and participate in
> technology projects. DepEd's collaboration with OEF forms part of a series
> of projects by DepEd under its initiatives on ICT4E or Information
> Communication Technology for Education. ICT4E seeks to employ learner-driven
> technological solutions to improve the delivery and access to quality basic
> educational.
>
> As stipulated in the agreement, OEF will provide free access to ThinkQuest
> projects and the necessary technical support to public schools.
>
> According to Lapus, coordinators will be assigned to assist OEF initiatives.
> He added that DepEd shall also integrate this programme among its various
> teacher professional development programmes to equip teachers in integrating
> OEF projects in the delivery of their lessons.
>
> The education chief added that "this partnership will be a boost to
> DepEd's
> goal for 21st century education for all Filipinos anytime, anywhere."
>
> Clare Dolan, Vice-President of Oracle Education Initiatives, and Lapus
> signed the agreement, which was witnessed by Natasak Rodjanapiches, Regional
> Managing Director of Oracle Asia-Pacific.
> Mutaasa B.G. Humphrey
> P.o Box 9816 Kampala
> Uganda East Africa.
> Tel:+256 772321736
>
>
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