Open source is key to reaching 500 million Indian children

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 24, 2007 1:32 AM EDT
Linux.com; By Mark Rais
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To support more than 650,000 villages and one half billion youths who need education, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) created a nonprofit organization called Shiksha India in 2001. One of Shiksha's primary initiatives was the creation of a collaborative online Web portal, which the president of India launched in a formal ceremony last month. The new e-learning and collaboration portal uses open source technology such as Moodle, Drupal, and MediaWiki.

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