Pakistani government announced it would provide 125,000 computers with Ubuntu installed for students, the Thai government has ordered 1 million tablets with Android for students in the country.
In the case of Pakistan, 125,000 laptops with Ubuntu installed will be given to students in high school and university. Umar Saif, representing the Council of Information Technology Punjab, wrote about the decision to use a solution based on free software in this project:
Support open source software on this scale in a country with a stark use of pirated software and owner, is a courageous and commendable initiative. Thanks to its flexibility, zero-cost and wide academic support, open source software is the de facto standard for college and university students around the world.
All very nice, but a criticism of the Pakistani project is that it favors older students, while younger people - who do not have any purchasing power and could benefit more from a computer - just getting out.
Well unlike the Thai government, which plans to invest nearly $ 70 million to buy 1 million Android tablet for students between 6 and 8 years. The project will take place in two stages with the first shipment of equipment coming in 90 days.
Reportedly, the tablet chosen by the Thai government is a Scopd SP0712, a tablet that by the tune of U.S. $ 81, has a hardware ... honest: 7 inch, single-core processor 1.5 GHz, 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of internal storage. All this running Ice Cream Sandwich.
Although the specifications of the notebook Pakistan have not been passed, one can imagine that is also modest hardware, but able to run the necessary programs for students.
