Open Source Goa

Margao GNU/Linux User Group (MGLUG)

Goan Computers for Schools Project
"The Goa Computers for Schools Project is a community based project which is attempting to improve the levels of computer literacy and computer access to students in Goa, and training teachers to use them to teach effectively ... The project has its roots on the internet ("Goanet"), when in 1995, Goans in N.America took the initiative to raise money for a number of schools in Goa. Since then, several thousands of dollars have been raised in various parts of the world (primarily the US, Canada, UAE and the UK) to serve this purpose. The project is run under the auspicies of Goa Sudharop Community Development, a US based Non-profit ... GSCP is the first educational project in India to use the Linux operating system which substantially reduces costs, and has a collaboration with RedHat India for this purpose. ... Till date the Goa Government has provided about 750 PC's to to Goa's 350 secondary schools, thus enabling every school in Goa to have at least 1 PC - the first state in India to achieve this Goal. Simultaneously GSCP has provided schools with 450 mainly recycled PC's to 150 schools, which has reduced the PC to student ratio to 1:35."

Follow up:

• Panjim LUG
• Margao LUG

We have separate pages for:

• Open Source India
• Hardware Recycling for India
• Fred Noronha

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