[Fsf-friends] Brand Ambassador of Microsoft Inc

[Ajay Pal Singh Atwal]

> On 10/17/05, doxa at sancharnet.in <doxa at sancharnet.in> wrote:
>>
>> Friends,
>> The sudden discovery of an ambassador in Minister Dayanidhi Maran by
>> Microsoft Inc is not surprising in the wake of the much touted training
>> of
>> teachers in Tamil Nadu (a project whose sibling met with an untimely
>> death
>> in Kerala, thanks to efforts of a few volunteer activists). But what is
>> surprising is to see the Minister shamelessly sitting atop foolish
>> advertisements of the corporate telling us *what ought to be the right
>> way
>> to address digital divide*. Perhaps it would do a world of good if
>> someone
>> from Tamilnadu retold the story of Don Quixote to the Minister (in its
>> 400th
>> year of celebrations).
>> CK Raju
>> Thrissur
>
>
> You bring up a topic I have also been following closely and find equally
> astonishing. I think it might actually be a good idea to invite Mr. Maran
> to
> the FOSS.IN <http://FOSS.IN> conference < http://foss.in >and maybe even
> organize a group of individuals to meet with him to discuss how India
> needs
> to embrace free and open source software. I will suggest this on the
> conference mailing list and see if this can be arranged.
>
> Regards,
> Ragavan


Somehow this reminds me to make the following URLS available to you ppl,
these are screenshots of a CBT Cd Provided to Govt School Teachers in
Punjab for a so Called Sarvshiksha Abhiyan being carried out by MS in
collaboration with Punjab Govt.
Check these screen shots and if you know punjabi, then you will come to
know how serious MS is regarding the course contents.

http://www.ajaypal.com/files/microsoft_cd_snapshot.jpg
http://www.ajaypal.com/files/microsoft_cd_snapshot2.jpg
http://www.ajaypal.com/files/microsoft_cd_snapshot3.jpg
http://www.ajaypal.com/files/microsoft_cd_snapshot4.jpg
http://www.ajaypal.com/files/microsoft_cd_snapshot8.jpg
etc etc

And in the tutorials section of the CD I found these
http://www.ajaypal.com/files/microsoft_cd_snapshot_tutorials3.jpg
http://www.ajaypal.com/files/microsoft_cd_snapshot_tutorials2.jpg
etc etc
Would accessibility features make sense in such a CBT, I am not sure.

Use your imagination to guess names of other files :-)
I do hope I am not infringing any copyright, by putting the screen shots
of the CBT CD provided by MS.


Would beautiful hard bound books and cool looking CD's compensate for good
course contents.

I would rate the Shiksha Abhiyan by MS -10 on a scale of 1 to 10

Atleast our Babus who approved of such a thing could see the course
contents before commisioning the crap, Whatever.