Ministry of Informatics: Faux pas
Czech Ministry of Informatics created big
faux
pas this week.
They prepared
text-books for "National
program for computer literacy" in the close cooperation with the biggest computer publisher in our
country. Three books are titled
First
time with computer,
Word and
Internet. They even presented these
text-books for public review.
So what is a faux pas here? E.g. the title of the second text-book is unacceptable. The complete
program for computer literacy is funded from public money and the title suggests to use one
particular product of one particular company (and incidentally the company that is now in legal
battle with EU). This is simple unacceptable. The text-book about the Internet contains
advertisements-like screenshots of one of the biggest Czech web portal (without mentioning others)
and what is the most interesting one, there is also a photo of one politician (our current prime
minister, who is called
Big Brother
here).
The most interesting is that the
public review software they
use on their pages had to be extended to be able to handle the amount of opinions from people who
read these books. There are 86
opinions right now and
I can't find positive opinion there ;-)
I posted three opinions there - one about
commercial software from
one supplier, second about
unacceptable political
background of one text-book and the third about
the copyright of all
documents (no right to distribute while the program is about distributing and extending computer
literacy etc.).
To sum up using the computer terminology: MI: EAGAIN.
So, back to the real work ;-)
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