Project GEITs experiment with Low Cost  Hardware and Open Source Softwares 

IT Infrastructure was one of the major bottlenecks with GEITs Pilot Schools (incidentally the situation is more or less similar in most schools in Goa).  As we planned to conduct hands-on sessions with students in the schools it was absolutely necessary to fix this hurdle to move forward with the project.

We made an appeal to the community for old hardware as well as funds to procure hardware. The response was positive but not enough to get us started working with the schools in a full fledged manner. In one of our schools with 200 plus students only one computer was working and that too would hang after some time. Due to all this, at one point in time the future of the project itself was in jeopardy as infrastructure was the backbone of our sessions.

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