Re: banglinux & IT.COM is not needed for India

[Sreeji K Das <bksys@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks

Sorry for being a bit late on this topic. I endorse the view of mks & I'd
be happy to participate in any effort to provide computer awareness
(rather than just GNU/Linux awareness) to the poor students of
govt. schools (ofcourse in my freetime !). I request folks on this list to
respond & let's hope we'd get something going soon !

Sreeji

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, M K Saravanan wrote:
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 23:26:41 +0530 (IST)
> From: M K Saravanan <mksarav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Raju Mathur <raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [LIG] [ot - sort of] spammer bites the dust (goodbye gtcdrom.
>     com)
> 
> Sorry it may be OFFTOPIC to the Linux group.  But in reality, the word
> Internet itself, is unknown to most of the Indian.  Usually whenever i get
> some free time (mostly in sundays) i will go to some govt. schools or other
> colleges and voluntarily take (awareness) seminars on Internet.  During these
> time, i have just wondered how ignorant are my fellow countrymen about
> Internet.  The condition is very worst in non-metropolitan cities within the
> state.  For e.g. if you go to places like thanjavur, tuticorin, tirunelveli,
> they will simply laugh at you if you tell about Internet because they don't
> even have proper computer facilities intheir colleges.  Telephone services are
> still worst.  Most of the college students in these places even don't know how
> to copy a file in a floppy (well you may say that 9 year old guy is doing
> linux installation - but my dear countrymen, pl. look the rest of the people
> also).  
> 
> It will be nice, if ILUG take some initiative ona regular basis (say weekly or
> monthly) to conduct Internet aware seminars particularly to govt. schools and
> colleges (really you don't believe, lot of young poor brilliant guys are there
> in govt. schools waiting for some mentor to guide them).  If we are able to
> co-ordinate allthese young chaps, we can achieve a lot in India itself.  Those
> who are having your old 286/386 can donate them to the schools so that they
> can load somebasic software like BASIC, C Program etc.., 
> 
> REally speaking Banglinux and IT.COM are not needed for the 90% of the Indian,
> all they need is to start them, to initiate them with basic stuff (especially
> poor govt. schools and colleges) and some minimum support fromthe computer
> gurus.  I strongly believe that ILUG can contribute a lot to achieve this
> goal.
> 
> -- mks --
> 

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