Abstract
One of the main challenges of developing countries is to shorten the digital divide that exists with developed countries and countries in transition. The government of Ecuador through its National Plan for Technologies and Telecommunications (Plan Nacional de Telecomunicaciones y Tecnologías), has as a goal to give universal access to Technologies of Information and Communication (TICs) to its entire citizens. One of its projects is to assure connectivity and infrastructure in schools. This paper proposes a low-cost open source solution to improve the access to information technology and communication through computers to children of schools in low income areas. The proposed alternative was set out to using the Raspberry Pi 3 s a substitute of standard computer. Its performance and capabilities were put to test comparing them to standard PC main functions. the pilot experiment was implemented at the "Ciudad de Ariel" elementary school, located on Durán, Ecuador.
Highlights
Over the last two decades, the relevance of TICs in the economical and social development has increased to become part of every economical and production activity
The Raspberry Pi are single board, high performance computers, developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, with its headquarters located at united Kingdom
A not-for-profit project "initiation aux TIC" (IniTIC) initiated the promotion of low cost, low power consumption, low maintenance computer labs in rural schools located in Togo, West Africa
Summary
Over the last two decades, the relevance of TICs in the economical and social development has increased to become part of every economical and production activity. One of the main projects involved in objective three is to Ensure the connectivity and technological infrastructure of schools. At the beginning of the project the values of the indexes chosen were 30% for the percentage of schools with Internet connection, and 30 is the average number of students per computer. The target at the end of the project is to have a 75% of schools with Internet connection and an average of 25 students per computer. With the target for the average number of students per computer still far away from the average from developed countries (between one and three students per computer) a better use of government resources needs to be developed, in order to have more computers with no alteration of the project budget. Later we present our pilot project, a comparison with a standard computer based project, and the results of the tests and first impressions of children that interacted with the computers
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