Google African adventures
p2pnet.net news:- Get ‘em while they’re young and/or (relatively) under-developed, preferably both. It’s a useful axiom and it’s one Google is applying under a deal it’s struck with Rwanda and Kenya.
“As a result, Rwanda’s educational institutions and government ministries, and Kenya’s universities are starting to use Google Apps – Google’s set of hosted and customizable communications services,” it says. “Students in both African countries as well as Rwandan government officials will have access to free communications tools including email, shared calendars, instant messaging and word processing under their institutions’ domain names.”
Rwanda’s National University of Rwanda, Kigali Institute for Education and Kigali Institute for Science and Technology will have Google Apps Education Edition, while the country’s government ministries will be using Google Apps Standard Edition, says Google.
In Kenya, University of Nairobi students “will be the first” to use Google Apps for Education.
Google already has a deal in hand with with Egypt, which recently jailed blogger Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman, 22, for four years.
Also See:
Google – Google Announces Partnership With Rwandan Government and Kenya Education Network, March 19, 2007
jailed blogger – Egyptian blogger stays in jail, March 13, 2007
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