{"id":284,"date":"2003-09-17T09:04:46","date_gmt":"2003-09-17T17:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2003\/09\/17\/freeing-computers-in-schools-free-software-in-education\/"},"modified":"2003-09-17T09:04:46","modified_gmt":"2003-09-17T17:04:46","slug":"freeing-computers-in-schools-free-software-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/09\/17\/freeing-computers-in-schools-free-software-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeing computers in schools: Free software in education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensector.org\/1063723220\">http:\/\/www.opensector.org\/1063723220<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another piece similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.island.net\/~leslies\/blog\/2003\/09\/16.html#a324\">one<\/a> I posted on yesterday concerning the relevance of Free and Open Source software to education. It focuses even more so on its relevance to developing nations, and points to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maailma.kaapeli.fi\/FLOSS_for_dev.html\">excellent report by Niranjan Rajani<\/a> on behalf of the Finnish government that also has details of the progress of open source in&nbsp; Africa, Asia and South America. &#8211; <em>SWL<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; via [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensector.org\/\">Open Sector<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.opensector.org\/1063723220 Another piece similar to the one I posted on yesterday concerning the relevance of Free and Open Source software to education. It focuses even more so on its relevance to developing nations, and points to an excellent report by Niranjan Rajani on behalf of the Finnish government that also has details of the progress &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/09\/17\/freeing-computers-in-schools-free-software-in-education\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Freeing computers in schools: Free software in education&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[301],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-open_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}