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We are happy to announce that FAIR is assisting Maarifa -- a new development eLearning project by the Norwegian governmental knowledge centre for free and reusable software, Friprogsenteret.
FAIR has mainly always concentrated on hardware and operating system infrastructure more than the content (we do like content, though!!). Maarifa on the other hand is an eLearning project founded on the basis of reusing already existing eLearning ressources, but keeping focus …
FAIR is happy to see the progress of the newly found Foundation for Learning Equality recently showcased in BBC Future (3:46).
First of all, their invention and on-going open source project KA Lite has meant availability of vast educational video materials and the potential of an online classroom environment in an otherwise offline ICT centre.
The vision is almost identical to FAIR's vision in Malawi, where centres apart from …
In the second week of October 2013 the Technical University of Denmark hosted the 4th Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT) Europe conference, a gathering of leading experts in the field of intelligent energy systems. FAIR Danmark was present at the conference with a donation box where conference participants could donate their complementary USB flash drives. In total 59 flash drives were collected. We want to thank all of the drive …
Kicking off our installation trip around the Northern region of Malawi, we setup the first centre at the home campus of our partner, Mzuzu University.
The centre was a wish by the university administration and the ICT Committee to provide better ICT access for students at the university. The need for better ICT access is critical: 3,100 registered students in 2013 and no general access …
We are very excited to announce that Mzuzu University (Mzuni), Northern Educational Division (NED), and FAIR have signed a Memorandum of Understanding about the current and future activities to provide sustainable ICT centres for secondary school education in Malawi.
The MOU has been planned since February 2013, through a number of physical meetings, and not least through online collaboration by email, chat, and Google Docs.
The project is very mutual: …
...and we are getting more excited for each day that passes. We've been working hard with practical issues, sorting equipment and preparing the equipment for the first centre. The staff at the ICT department are well-informed of the project, and we share a common vision of providing as many people as possible with ICT access, and to make the project sustainable.
During the coming month, we will switch to some more personal blogging, and this is a post hopefully to be followed up by many more about the next month of practical work to implement IT Centres around the Mzuzu area of Northern Malawi.
Lately, we have been in close contact, preparing the project with Mzuzu University's ICT head of department, Seyani Nayeja, who has also blogged about the project [1]. …
In the slipstreams of consumer and business habits, FAIR has moved on from CRTs and are now exclusively using LCDs. We would like to reflect this with a little touch-up of our logo.
We still want to extend life cycles as much as possible. But it seems clear that we are at a new milestone: We almost exclusively receive LCD monitors, and CRTs are increasingly energy hogging compared to their …
Oh no! We have depleted our stock of VGA cables in Denmark! If you happen to have a pile of them, please do send them over. We are trying to build a new stock for current and future donations of screens, many of which arrive without cables.
As a new initiative, we are collecting USB flash to hand out to individuals. There has been a very fast paced production of these devices, and many have been given out in commercial promotional activities. Thus, we expect that many of these devices have gone out of use or were never actually used, even though they are extremely useful!!
The recipients of USB flash collected will be teachers at secondary …
