[Fsf-friends] Virtual education software progress in India

[Frederick Noronha (FN)]

VIRTUAL EDUCATION SOFTWARE PROGRESS IN INDIA - Bangalore's Centre for
Development of Advanced Computing, which leads the Indian
Government-funded Development Gateway ICT Research and Training Centre,
has published a technical paper on building virtual classroom situations
using the center's Vartalaap software. The open-source software is being
developed to cater to the online communications needs of people in their
local language.  
 
To read "Vartalaap - Virtual Classroom System":
http://www.elearn.cdac.in/eleltechIndia05/PDF/07-Vartalaap%20%E2%80%93%
20Virtual%20Classroom%20System%20-Supriya%20-%2007.pdf  
   
For information on the India center and its ICT4D projects visit:
http://www.ictrt.org.in