This is great news for Ireland and Education (and also good one for my agency).
The Government announced yesterday the agreement to provide Broadband access for all Irish schools !
The but on this story is the blur surrounding the applications around this. The thing I am sure enough is that the site Scoilnet I developed will surely be upgraded to include more 'heavy' content like videos or live conferences.
The other good thing is the project to provide each school with a website (imagine something like 4000 .Net websites!).
But I am a bit concern about the OS schools will implement. The person here in charge of the project (and of course not an IT :-( ) seem to push too quickly on a sort of Linux platform.
Help Microsoft ! I don't want to be a Linux developer :-))
I disagree in the sense that no really technical analysis has been done on the feasibility and the support of such a project like that. We talk here about 4200 schools !
Thankfully I know that Microsoft are on the ranks for this project, and I hope we can have at the end the same infrastructure they were able to build in Northern Ireland.
Anyway that's really a boost for this country and new technologies.
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