Open source gives South African farmers a leg-up (Tektonic)

[Posted November 27, 2005 by cook]

Tektonic examines the South African Digital Doorways project. The project provides network access terminals to rural areas using open-source software. "Soobramani comments: "People's perception of Linux and open source is that everything is command-based, text-based. Our pilot projects are meant to address that perception. Our core function as the department of agriculture is to deliver agricultural services to the community. So we use these Digital Doorways in the rural areas to assist farmers. If they want share prices, market information, agricultural information, they can use the kiosks to find it. And it's working.""