Oct18th2007

IT Training at Goroka Hospital…

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Robert
on October 18, 2007
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Started today!

My 1st class…
From L to R: Sena, Henri T, Kiddron, Henri K and Lydia…
All five being trained up to be Ingots Trainers…
Ingots is the system of IT training that we have adopted at the Hospital.
IT Training at Goroka Hospital... photo

Interestingly all PC's in the Training room (and eventually the Hospital) are running Open Source Software…

Ubuntu Linux OS and desktop
OpenOffice Office Suite
OpenProj Project Management
AVG Anti Virus
Klavaro Touch Typing Tutor
Mozilla Firefox browser
Mozilla Thunderbird email client
Mozilla Seabird calendaring client
And many more !!

All up about AU$3000 of software for free!!

Suck on that one Bill Gates!!



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