if you are interested in educational management in low income countries, this is a great opportunity. aga khan education service runs over 300 schools (54k students) in pakistan, india, bangladesh, kenya, uganda, tanzania, and tajikistan. if you need more information, shoot an email to sheila. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sheila Clitheroe Tieszen <sheila.clitheroetieszen@akest.org> Date: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 23:41 Subject: IT Infrastructure Project for Aga Khan Education Service Tanzania To: yanokwa@cs.washington.edu Dear Yaw, We did not meet when you visited AKES,T in Dar es Salaam earlier this year. You spoke to my colleagues Mahmud Shivji and Jackie Kavuma. I understand that your graduate student centre is keen to become in real IT projects. If that is the case, we have a project I believe might be of interest to you. We are doing some strategic planning for up-grading the IT infra-structure and expanding the range of applications we will use. We would value some serious in-put into the planning and operationalising of our thinking. The sort of things we are thinking of are: introducing an education information management system which will require an SQL server, which we do not currently have, this system also has an e-portal for parents, teachers and students; a thin client approach to resourcing the computer labs; and the future use of a VLE. Please let me know if you feel there would be any scope for you or your colleagues to make a project out of this need for assistance. I look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Sheila Clitheroe Tieszen Sheila E. Clitheroe Tieszen CEO Aga Khan Education Service, Tanzania P.O. Box 125 Urambo Street, off United Nations Road Dar es Salaam Tel: +255 22 2150406/700 Direct line: +255 22 2150703 Fax: +255 22 2150701 Mobile +255 (0) 753 029 344 email: sheila.clitheroetieszen@akest.org