Aha. 

I feel that people are either targeting African jungles/other extremely remote places or to the locally famous/large universities/colleges and barely anything is targeted in between them. 

I'm not telling you that there is nothing at all (there are a few examples of such educational programs), simply I just wish to raise the awarness that there are many other educational facilities in between Epukiro Post 3 Junior Secondary School in rural Namibia and the Smithonian in Washington D.C.

Balázs

2013/7/13 Everton Zanella Alvarenga <everton.alvarenga@okfn.org>

2013/7/11 Balázs Viczián <balazs.viczian@wikimedia.hu>:

> Would be interesting to see a similar project somewhere in rural Europe or
> the US,

Interesting idea. You made me curious and made me look for some data
on rural schools in US. According to this 2010 data[1] it seems we
don't even need to go to rural areas. As an example, look at
California, where we have more 5 to 17 years old in families living in
poverty in town than in rural areas.

As a cultural curiosity, I wonder what would be the results of a
survey for professor with questions about Wikipedia in schools of poor
districts of USA.

[1] http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ruraled/tables/a.1.a.-6_2010.asp

This reminds me my high school in a public school of Săo Paulo
(1996-1998), where we had a good computer lab to train AutoCAD
software, but it was never used, since teachers didn't know how to use
these new computers. Same thing with my brother, who became a Linux
geek at the age of 15, but the school director kept the computer lab
doors closed and he could not spend his time with something he loved.
Quite the opposite, teachers were sometimes wrong things to him or
underestimating his intelligence.

I gave these two examples of public school in the richest town of
South America to tell about teachers who simply didn't know how to use
some tools everybody had access to.

P. S. AutoCAD for the level of things I needed that time is easier
than editing Wikipedia.

Tom

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