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    Interesting. FYI<br>
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    Tom Gilliard<br>
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            <td>Latin America Is Fertile With EduTech Experimentation</td>
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            <td>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:08:04 +0000</td>
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            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">From: </th>
            <td>Educational Technology Debate
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            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">To: </th>
            <td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:satellit@bendbroadband.com">satellit@bendbroadband.com</a></td>
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                  21 Mar 2013 06:31 AM PDT</p>
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                  <p>Hello, I’m <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                      href="http://www.roxanabassi.com.ar/">Roxana Bassi</a>
                    and I’m now a co-editor at Educational Technology
                    Debate.</p>
                  <p><b>A bit about me</b></p>
                  <p>Almost 30 years ago I connected to the prequel to
                    the Internet, the BBSs, with a 300 bps modem and
                    never disconnected. I grew up in Argentina, but have
                    worked in four continents, the last six years mostly
                    in Africa as Senior ICT Specialist of the Global
                    e-Schools and Communities Initiative (<a
                      moz-do-not-send="true" rel="nofollow"
                      target="_blank" href="http://gesci.org/">GESCI</a>).</p>
                  <p>Being an IT and Telecommunications engineer I
                    consider myself a geek. But I don’t get as excited
                    about new cool stuff as I get when I see people
                    REALLY improving their lives thanks to technology.
                    That has always been my objective from my very early
                    days. As a logical consequence, my specialty is ICT
                    for development, but I have spent most of my time
                    working in IT in education. </p>
                  <p>Being a thorough project planner I love to work on
                    technical areas like TCO (Total Cost of Ownership),
                    large scale deployments of technology, technical
                    support, and alternative energy sources, among
                    others.</p>
                  <p>I have realized I am extremely diffident of new
                    technologies, I trust more the old proven
                    technologies than new ones. So I am the type that
                    questions every new idea and asks for proof of
                    results before I can really believe. Lately I have
                    been enthusiastic about new areas that open
                    education for everyone like MOOCs (Massive Online
                    Open Courses), while at the same time I am very
                    concerned about the preservation of local languages
                    and cultures in the new globalized Internet.</p>
                  <p><b>The View From Latin America</b></p>
                  <p>In these last years most of ICT4E effort – and
                    funds – seem to be focused in Africa, probably
                    because it contains many of the under developed
                    countries of the world. But a lot of action is
                    taking place in Latin America. Just <a
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href="https://edutechdebate.org/olpc-in-south-america/olpc-in-uruguay-impressions-of-plan-ceibal/">consider
                      Uruguay</a> with its one-of-a-kind 1 laptop per
                    child project REALLY deployed countrywide or Peru
                    with the <a moz-do-not-send="true" rel="nofollow"
                      target="_blank"
                      href="https://edutechdebate.org/archive/olpc-in-peru/">second
                      largest OLPC deployment</a>. With 20 countries and
                    600 million inhabitants that speak only two main
                    languages, it is a fertile area of experimentation.
                  </p>
                  <p>Consider that common languages are a fantastic
                    opportunity for educational content development and
                    sharing, supported by <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                      href="http://www.relpe.org/">RELPE</a> (the
                    network of educational portals). Application of ICT
                    in education in the region is expanding at an
                    incredible rate, with many innovative projects going
                    on, where we have a few lessons of success and many
                    quiet failures. </p>
                  <p>Through the years working in different parts of the
                    world I have learned that despite of the obvious
                    differences, when it comes to ICT4E projects and
                    deployments the challenges are very similar
                    everywhere I’ve worked, and I am sure the Latin
                    American experience can be used to advance projects
                    in other parts of the world. </p>
                  <p>So now you know that my heart beats to the rhythms
                    of Latin America, and therefore I hope to bring into
                    Edutech debate examples, failures, case studies and
                    experts from this region. We have many interesting
                    areas of debate planned for this year, and I look
                    forward to the discussion. Please help me expand
                    south to south learning possibilities in ICT4E!</p>
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