Savings is only one aspect of the advantages of using free software in education. It should be made clear that schools need an environment that fosters better individuals by way of exploration and experimentation.

- Harish

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Open Source Software saves Indian IT@schools program $2 million

,----[ Quote ] | Government authorities in the Indian State of Kerala will save more $US2.27 | million by using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) on computers to be | installed in schools throughout the state as part of an $US11.7 million | (Rs.57 Crore) expansion to its IT@School project.   `----

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/tech-news/open-source-software-bo...

Society - maybe there is such a thing after all

,----[ Quote ] | We have examples of endeavours such as Wikipedia, that are only able to be | created by a community, working together to create something they could not | create individually. The Open Source Software community is another example. | Such community efforts deliver efficiency, but the primary driver is an | ethical one; as Glyn Moody comments when discussing the General Public | License "It is not trying to be “efficient”, it is trying to be ethical; | ideally you want both – and in many respects, the culture that the GNU GPL | fosters is extremely efficient. But if efficiency and ethics clash, ethics | win every time."         `----

http://globalvillagegovernance.blogspot.com/2009/07/society-maybe-the...

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Indian Schools Adopt Virtual Desktops From NComputing

,----[ Quote ] | NComputing is working with the state governments of Assam and Tamil Nadu on | pilots for the deployment of its virtual desktop technology on Linux PCs, | according to Dukker. `----

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/152183/indian_schools_a...

CII-Shiksha Integrates Open Source In Curriculum

,----[ Quote ] | As part of its Special Series on Integrating Open Source in Curriculum, | CII-Shiksha undertook a 6-months pilot project with six schools of Delhi. Ten | mathematics teachers from these six schools participated in the pilot and | worked on GeoGebra -- an open source/free software for mathematics. The | teachers created dynamic applets in geometry and algebra.     `----

http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/26276/news.htm

What Policy Should India Adopt for ICT in School Education?

,----[ Quote ] | Considering that computer science is a strange mix of deep theory as well as | sophisticated technology, it is very vital for any society to use this | transparently. Else, we will let some agencies become monopolies. This is a | serious danger to digital society because, the data that is digitized belongs | to you and me, and not to the company. But, in reality today, our data has | been handed over to the proprietary companies, since they alone have the | license to decode our own documents. This will create a possibility for | computer crime, which is happening all around our eyes. We should we let this | happen?         `----

http://gnowgi.org/2008/04/27/what-policy-should-india-adopt-for-ict-i...