Are used computers the best thing for our schools?
It’s been over a year since a shipment of donated, used computers arrived in Goa for installation across schools in the state. A survey conducted recently examines how successful the project has been and what issues and concerns it has thrown up. Frederick Noronha outlines some of the lessons learned from the Goa Schools Computers Project

Interviewing, ‘Free and Open’ Style...
You could call it a ‘free and open’ style interview. The collaborative model of building software recently touched the world of journalism! A network of Free/Libre and Open Source enthusiasts, called the Mumbai_GNULinux network on Yahoogroups.com brought their heads together to decide on what to ask Red Hat (India) director Javed Tapia. By the time the interview was done, it was also circulated to the North India, Roorkee IIT and Jodhpur FLOSS networks. Here are some extracts from the interview, done collaboratively at the initiative of Kunal Bharati and edited by Frederick Noronha

Taking IT to the voluntary world
If you hear someone talk about Mahiti and Bangalore, you’ll probably think of the state government program that goes under that name.

Green IT generates interest
IT doesn’t remain just IT when other professionals realise how this technology could be useful to their work.

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