Every Macedonian Student to Use Ubuntu-Powered Computer Workstations

Popular Linux Distribution To Appear On More than 180,000 Classroom Desktops Nationwide

LONDON, November 20th, 2007 - The Macedonia
Ministry of Education and Science will deploy more than 180,000
workstations running CanonicalΆs Edubuntu 7.04 as part of its 'Computer
for Every Child' project.

The Macedonia 'Computer for Every Child' project is one of the
largest known thin client and desktop Linux deployments ever
undertaken. Half of elementary and secondary Macedonia students attend
school in the morning, and half attend in the afternoon, so 180,000
workstations will allow for one classroom computing device per student
for the entire Republic's public school population. The first 7000
computers pre-installed with Ubuntu were shipped on September 4th 2007

Ubuntu is the award-winning Linux distribution for the desktop,
laptop, thin client and server which brings together the best of open
source software every six months. It is free, community-developed and
contains all of the necessary applications to be up and running
immediately, from web browser to instant messaging. It also comes with
English and Macedonian language packs.

'The Computer for Every Child initiative is the largest and most
important education project undertaken in the 15-year history of the
Republic of Macedonia,' said Ivo Ivanovski, Macedonia's Minister for
the Information Society. 'By selecting Ubuntu as the operating system
for all of our classroom virtual PCs, our education system can provide
computer-based education for all school children within the limited
financial and infrastructural confines that most institutions face
today.'

'Macedonia is showing tremendous vision by deciding its own destiny
in choosing how its children will learn through computing – said Mark
Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu project. 'By choosing Ubuntu which
is free to modify, use and redistribute it turns students into
participants in Information Technology and not simply consumers of it.

The Ubuntu operating system will run on 160,000 virtual PC
terminals and 20,000 PCs (which each also support a student on the
attached monitor) supplied by NComputing and procured and installed by
The Haier Company, a diversified manufacturer and PC maker based in
China.

The project will enable a range of innovative educational programs,
including interactive web-based classes in which specialized experts
teach lessons in such areas as mathematics, biology, chemistry and
physics to multiple schools and classrooms around the country

Link: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/macedonia-school-computers



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