London School of Puppetry wrote: > Does anyone know anything about this project? Taking place in India. > Computers are built into walls in India in open spaces for children to > play with ....thousands of them have learnt English over the past year > by playing....Apparently they did try OS tech. but said it didn't > work- stuff likes Red Hat I was told vaguely.....anyone know anything > about it? > > Caroline > > -- > > --- > London School of Puppetry > www.londonschoolofpuppetry.com <http://www.londonschoolofpuppetry.com> Caroline,
I have come across this before - having read a journal article on the phenomenon for a final-year Psychology essay. I'll try and dig up the entry so I can find you some details. If I recollect correctly, then the situation was something like the following: A big tech company in Mumbai had a building which was next to a slum, and one of the buildings backed onto the slum. A philanthropic employee/manager decided to study the ability for people who were completely uninitiated to any form of technology to use a computer. It had a basic keyboard and mouse - and the main reason that I was impressed by the article - & Linux (though which flavour I am not sure). The surprising thing was, that not only were the indian children able to use the computer and work out how to use the keyboard and the mouse - but they were able to use both google (and english) to a surprisingly level. If I could get my hands on my Uni documents then I'd be able to give you a complete essay on it (and a far more accurate account). However, I ran Windows during my final year of Uni to run some University software... needless to say the first thing I did when I left uni was to switch to just ubuntu - and took out my windows HD to keep all my stuff backed up. That disk is now in Birmingham, and I'm in Manchester. I hope this helps. Andy -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
