15 Millions Ipad For Turkey Schools

[nirvaman 1]

Turkey once again proves its strength in new technologies: Ankara, who wants to equip schools in the country with touch pads, has just launched a tender to deploy 15 million tablets over a period of four years.

Originally, the project was subject to a condition: the tablets were to be produced locally, but the Turkish government would have backtracked on this constraint really ... too restrictive. If they win the contract, Apple^tm could still give the Turks the production of accessories like covers and headphones.

Obviously, Apple is not alone on the spot because Microsoft and Intel are already part of the hame.For the record: 15 million iPad, it still represents an investment (or a turnover, it depends on which side one takes) of about 7.5 billion euros! No problem for Turkey, whose public debt is comparable to the Scandinavian countries so often cited as examples.
By the way: a sacred snub to his great rival Greek who is completely in the hole!

[k_nitin_r 8]

Just as Turkey is investing in providing tablet computers to schools, an Indian firm has been attempting to provide tablet computers to students at just $50. Sure, it does not have the same specs as an iPad, but it seems to get the job done. It comes with a resistive screen that makes up $10 of the price and an ARM processor. You can read more details about these $50 tablets at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ on the subject of computers within academic institutions, it is necessary to determine what it is that the students will be doing with them. If you want the students to watch videos then a tablet would be just perfect because you can deliver the videos over a wireless local area network and have them played with headphones or earphones. The screen on a tablet is large enough to display some text within the videos as well, unlike the case with smart phones, and gives the students their bang for the buck. There are other applications where the objective is to simply provide the means for students to browse the Internet and learn to use modern-day computing tools in which case a netbook would be better suited for the purpose. To assist students with their learning by providing easy access to computing tools and a quick way to enter data from their experiments, a tablet computer is the preferred choice. When teaching students about rending graphics or editing video, a regular laptop or notebook PC or a desktop computer is called for.I wonder what application the Turkish government wants to put the tablets to use for. As long as they have a clear agenda for what they want to do with the devices, the cost is probably justified.

[nirvaman 1]

I'm wondering if they are willing to secure the Ipads from bad use. (nudity ,racisme and other illegal materials that can be exchanged between young children (teenagers).Any ideas?

[Quatrux 4]

Nice to hear that Turkey is getting quite modern with information technologies, it's quite a good step forward.I just wonder, is Turkey quite new to IT and moving forward with quite new technology offered today or they've always been in that path? Because in some conferences I've heard that Turkey bought quite a lot of ORACLE ExaData servers, where Poland only bought 1 or 2, due to it's quite expensive, but very powerful ORACLE product. I thought that it has a quite new infrastructure and can buy things like that, in a lot of other countries a lot of systems are working with older and less expensive and less powerful servers, due to some systems are created years ago and it works.