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Usage of FOSS in Educational Institutions

by Khairil Yusof last modified 2006-08-14 11:21 AM
Contributors: Colin Charles <byte@aeon.com.my>, Kamal Hilmi Othman <khilmi@gmail.com>

A list of educational institutions in Asia-Pacific using Free/Open Source Software to provide services for students and as part of their courses.

Malaysia

Kolej Ugama Sultan Zainal Abidin

http://www.kusza.edu.my

Most of the core information services for students are running FOSS such as Apache, MySQL, Sendmail, Cyrus Imapd and Squid. Currently moving their Informix DB from AIX to Red Hat ES. That Informix DB currently holds students, staff, administrative information.

Also using Moodle and teaching FOSS programming languages such as PHP, Perl and C. Students are also thaught to program using VI editor and GNU C Compiler suite.

Kolej Universiti Sains dan Teknologi Malaysia

http://www.kustem.edu.my

Information services are using FOSS include Squid, BIND, DHCP,
Apache, MySQL and few other web related services. Servers currently using RedHat, OpenBSD and FreeBSD.

India

IT@School Project of Kerala

IT@School Project of Kerala aims to introduce IT Enabled education to
Highschool students. It use GNU/Linux. They are using a customized version of
Debian GNU/Linux. It is the largest deployment of GNU/Linux in India. around
2800 Schools uses it ie. an average of 28000 computers installed with GNU/Linux
and around 10,000,00 students using it

http://www.education.kerala.gov.in/itschool/index.htm

Contact: vimal@space-kerala.org

Singapore


Singapore Management University (SMU)

http://www.smu.edu.sg

One of the four largest and renowned universities in Singapore, teach second year Computer Science database students, MySQL instead of MS SQL, commencing the year 2006.

Thailand

Prince of Songlka University

FOSS Computer Labs

Burapha University

East Regional University Network using FOSS technologies

Kasetsart University

FOSS support and training

Kon Kaen University

FOSS CMS and PHP Training

RBAC University

FOSS Demonstration Lab

ABAC University

FOSS Demonstration Lab and Ftraining

Source: NECTEC Asia OSS 7 Presentation Slide

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