SEUL.org: Linux in Education Report #83

[ Thanks to Doug Loss
for this link. ]

“Ilpo Halonen told us:

“I would like to inform you of the websites Dafnord Finnland for
teachers of German in Nordic and Baltic countries and European
Schools Projects Finland. Eduprojects.net of COMPACT, one of the
Comenius 3 networks in Europe, is powered by Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP
solutions. Impressio, the content management system, and the
eJournal (e.g. LIP Training Journal), the lite version of CMS, are
products of Imnetti, a small company in a small town
Jämsä in Middle Finland. All products are based on LAMP.
There is collaboration between COMPACT and the entrepreneur to
produce cost-effective educational solutions. Free websites can be
created in http://www.eduprojects.net using CMS. eJournal is also
free for testing if you want to know how it works. At the time
being eJournal is experimented in collaboration between 10 Finnish
and 10 South African schools. In LIP (Learn Internet Projects by
Doing) Training Journal there are 67 participants from about 15
countries of Europe and Asia who just start collaboration in the
Internet.

“Joris Komen of SchoolNet Namibia let us know about their
winning the 2002 Hafkin Prize. From their note: ‘SchoolNet
Namibia’s ‘inspirational’ approach to bridging the digital divide
has garnered the non-profit organization the 2002 Hafkin prize for
people-centred information and communications technology policy in
Africa. […] The prize, created ‘to encourage and recognise
outstanding examples of African initiatives in ICTs for
development’, is awarded to the nominee who best fits the criteria
of capacity building, awareness raising and Africa-driven
development initiatives…'”

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