Muhammad, Before the 1994 coup, UNESCO provided to the Gambia government a sum of two hundred thousand pounds sterling to introduce computers in high schools.Dr. Saja Taal was working with Unesco Gambia office at the time. It was a requirement by Unesco to set up a technical committee including people like myself in the private sector,to consult all high schools students,from Banjul to Basse,to determine their awareness of computers and how it will help them in their course of studiies.Our findings was overwhelmingly positive. The intention was to have a computer in every high school library to promote computer literacy and use in high schools. The school admin offices were to be provided with computers with relevant application software to help with admin duties.I don't know how this gorvernment intends to pursue this but I do know that the advent of the internet can be a valuable tool for research for our students and will also provide them a platform for connectivity both localy and internationaly. Beran -----Original Message----- From: Muhammad Lamine Jassey-Conteh [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 8:06 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Gambia to use the Internet to push education Patriots: The referenced posting is meant to divert our attention to more pertinent questions that the dictatorship refuses to answer. It is indeed lack of priorities to push for such irritate ideas. The $11 million stolen my dictator jemus for that soon to crash plane could have been used for more classrooms and better pay for our school teachers. We are no fools. This idea will never work. Flush it in the toilet. Comrade, Muhammad Lamine Jassey-Conteh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------