Official: Broadband will be for every school in Ireland

This is great news for Ireland and Education (and also good one for my agency).

The Government announced yesterday the agreement to provide Broadband access for all Irish schools !

The but on this story is the blur surrounding the applications around this. The thing I am sure enough is that the site Scoilnet I developed will surely be upgraded to include more 'heavy' content like videos or live conferences.

The other good thing is the project to provide each school with a website (imagine something like 4000 .Net websites!).

But I am a bit concern about the OS schools will implement. The person here in charge of the project (and of course not an IT :-( ) seem to push too quickly on a sort of Linux platform.

Help Microsoft ! I don't want to be a Linux developer :-))

I disagree in the sense that no really technical analysis has been done on the feasibility and the support of such a project like that. We talk here about 4200 schools !

Thankfully I know that Microsoft are on the ranks for this project, and I hope we can have at the end the same infrastructure they were able to build in Northern Ireland.

Anyway that's really a boost for this country and new technologies.

 

2 Comments

  • your talking about schools here and the irish government. they hardly have enough money to buy a new jet, never mind 4000 copies of windows 2003 server and all the licenses envolved! unless microsoft GIVE the software to them, then yea, they should use it. im irish, and i wish they had broadband when i was in school. i wish they had internet access when i was in school.

  • Hey be optimistic, things evolve ! And IMO between the jet and the broadband I think I choose. Also this will benefit to a lot of people. Surely Eircom will make broadband access for everybody a real thing.

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