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Hai Ti! - Namibian Comics Teach Open Source Software
Topics: Networked World, Interesting Tech, Languages, FOSS, Education, Schools, Africa, Comics, Communication
Hai Ti means "Listen Up!" in the Oshiwambo language spoken by the Owambo people of Namibia. It is also the name of an educational outreach project by SchoolNet Namibia. This project seeks to "entice" teachers and students into using open source software for learning and other activities. The message is delivered via English language comics telling stories of how people use the software and giving tips on using computers. You can read the introduction to the Hai Ti! project and browse through the comics online. The comics are provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Licence.This can be helpful for teachers developing their own educational materials. Below is a "clipping" from the first volume of Hai Ti!. This section tells teachers how the Internet can provide many educational resources. Such resources, in traditional printed form, would be too expensive for many of the schools. (I won't go into the pros & cons of Wikipedia here. It's still a useful starting point for researching a topic. Just don't stop there.
As I was browsing the comics, one of the things that caught my attention were the references to "uninterrupted power supplies" (UPSs) that SchoolNet Namibia can provide to the country's schools. It might sound like just another piece of hardware to people in more affluent countries, where power outages are infrequent. But it is reminder that uninterrupted electrical power is not available in some parts of the world. In one section of the comics, lightning strikes are presented as one cause of power outages.
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