Would you be interested in helping to digitize existing textbooks and getting them translated to Kinyarwanda? This will be particularly important as Rwanda rolls out OLPC XO laptops to primary school students who do not yet speak either French, the former language of instruction, or English, which is now intended to be the new language of instruction.
Several countries have already digitized some or all of their textbooks, or are in the process of doing so, and of organizing local manufacture of educational laptops. The result is that the laptops cost less than the printed textbooks used to, so that we can improve education at lower cost, and more easily make it available to all children. On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 06:28, rwagasana <gerw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi dear all. > > I am Rwagasana Gerard, 65 old, retired professor from the National > University of Rwanda, independent researcher and consultant ICT in > education. I live in Kigali, Rwanda. Because of a very slow internet > connection, I could not attend the OERu meeting virtually. > OERu initiative has a very great importance and interest for Rwanda, > where more than 50% of people cannot access high education because of > social, financial and other obstacles. > I am sure that it is the case especially for all developing countries > (and even in some way for developed ones). > I will try to interest our Minister of education and some > Universities' Rectors I know well, hoping they will agree to support > and be involved in our project. > I am waiting for the publication of the meeting's conclusions. > > Many many thanks to all those who initiated this fantastic project and > to all of you who are actively involved in. > > rwagasana > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
