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 Thank you so much for the training opportunity you gave us last year. We have been progressing very well. We have two labs in our only public school running on Fedora Core 5 LTSP. We also have three of our biggest grade schools doing the same thing. Our back end service is using Xen and FC5. |
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Palau Ministry of Education
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kar•te•ro - kart•ro ('k•r-'te-'rO) - noun
1: a Filipino word for postman, mailman, or letter carrier - someone who delivers the mail.
2: a Bluepoint Foundation project that provides low-cost e-mail access to public schools, local government units, non-profit and religious organizations in connectivity challenged areas of the Philippines.
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Linux Server and E-mail Service Donation to Bulan South District
Thu Feb 5 22:30:14 PHT 2004
Aside from faculty and staff, more than 2,500 basic education department students from public schools under the Department of Education Bulan South District office will receive e-mail addresses which they will hopefully use not just for communication, but for research and FTP via e-mail as well.
Issues
Poor local communications infrastructure. The limited number of installed landlines are unreliable, especially during inclement weather. Furthermore, these support incoming calls only. The nearest ISP is several miles away. Access rates are too steep.
Solution
We installed Buhawi on an old HP Vectra and configured it as an e-mail kiosk using mgetty, uucp, Sendmail, IMAP, Apache, PHP, and SquirrelMail. Bluepoint will receive all e-mail for bsd.bicol.bluepoint.com.ph. Spam and virus infected mails will be discarded to ensure that only legitimate messages are sent to Bicol via UUCP.
To-Do
Landlines are limited and unreliable, but there are quite a number of cellsites! We'll use a mobile phone as backup, and switch it over to primary if it proves to be more reliable.
Credits
Many thanks to Rene Enriquez of Saudi Investment Group and Marketing for the HP Vectra units and other peripherals that he shipped to us from the Middle East.
We Do Not Exist?!
Mon Jul 4 20:00:15 PHT 2005
We submitted Kartero in the ICT4D/IDRC project's recent call for proposals aiming to document ICT4D projects in the Philippines. Unfortunately, they did not consider our proposal because they were "looking for existing projects or projects that have been implemented which the author could analyze and write into a case study." It seems that as far as they're concerned, the Kartero project does not exist.
Ouch, that takes a lot away from the people who've been working on this project for more than a year now. We may not have gone fast and wide, what with our limited resources, but the project definitely exists!
Bluepoint will continue to run Kartero for as long as our target organizations need it. And we will analyze and document the project's impact on its beneficiaries, grants or no grants. |
Broadband Roadkill?
Wed July 5 22:39:00 PHT 2006
Kartero is a very affordable, low-technology solution for far-flung areas where there is the minimum of telecom technology installed or available. It is designed to provide mass e-mail services with the part-time use of non-dedicated telecom resources, be it wired or wireless.
Even in these times of 24x7 broadband access and expanding ranges of wireless connectivity, this project remains a viable alternative for those who may need internet connectivity the most.
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