Thursday, September 01, 2005

Technology and Zimbabwe book shortage

In Zimbabwe there is a huge shortage of books in schools and i was
thinking about how best that this can be alleviated.

Could all books be converted to a PDF or any internet downloadable
format to allow them to be printed to ordinary paper by ordinary printers?
That way a teacher when he goes to a growth point where they have
internet connectivity can download the latest course material and
teaching guides. Well this is a bit far fetched but I think having books
as open courseware may allow some of the disadvantaged schools to have
access to some of the best material for the best schools like Goromonzi,
Gokomere, Mazowe, St Ignatius, Eaglesvale, Chisipite, Arundel, etc in
the form of simple paper printouts. Would this work?

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