BJP has won UP assembly poll by huge margin, Yogi Adityanath has started
office on war footing. In manifesto, BJP has announced that UP government would
distribute free laptop and 1 Gb data connection with it. If this program is
implemented in right way, UP may lead India to knowledge based economy.I have a
few suggestions in this regard.
- Laptop should have AMD processor instead of Intel. This will save money.
- Money saved in processor should be used to provide as big hard drive as
possible.Hard disk capacity of distributed laptop should be at least 512 Gb,
preferably 1 Terabyte.
- I assume laptop would have some sort of Microsoft Windows operating system.
It will take some time when Linux will be at par with Windows.For time being its
alright.
- The laptops should have Libreoffice as office suite as it is free and open
source. Features of Libreoffice are suffice for more than 99% of users who use
Microsoft Office. https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/
- The laptops should also have photo editing open source application GIMP
installed on machines. GIMP is open source and free application instead of
Photoshop. https://www.gimp.org/
- The laptops should have Wikipedia installed on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
- Students from 5th class should try to learn shell programming. To make this
happen complete install of Cygwin should be available on the laptops. https://www.cygwin.com/
- The laptops should have free and open source text editor Notepad++
installed.Notepad++ have a lot of features including regular expressions. https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
- Laptops should have XAMPP installed. Students should be encourged to learn
PHP and Mysql. So, e-books should be provided to do so.Students from class 8
should be encouraged to learn PHP and Mysql. https://www.apachefriends.org/
- Laptops should also Java installed on it.e-books for Java should be provided
as well.Students from class 11th should be encouraged to learn Java. https://www.java.com/en/
- Laptops should have open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
Eclipse installed with plug-in for Java and PHP. https://eclipse.org/ide/
- Laptop should also have Open Live Writer installed. It is a desktop blogging
tool and supports Wordpress as well as Blogger. http://openlivewriter.org/
- There should be e-book to configure Blogger with own domain name and putting
Google Adsense on it.
- E-books should also be available on laptop to provide information about
Internet Marketing and various affiliate programs.
- E-books should also introduce students about internet real estate aka Domain
Names and how to make money from it.
- Laptops should also have all free books like Gita, Mahabharat, Ramayan,
Premchand’s work etc so that students may read it in free time.
Some Useful Links
http://www.warriorforum.com – For
internet Marketing
http://www.domainstate.com – Domain
Name Forum
http://www.inforum.in – Domain Name Forum
dedicated to .in extension
http://www.idnforums.com – Domain Name
Forum dedicated to IDN domains
http://www.digitalpoint.com –
Internet Marketing etc forum
http://www.opensourcecms.com –
Listing and demo of content management systems based in PHP and Mysql
http://www.javaranch.com – Place to
learn Java
http://www.fiverr.com – One may get a job
worth 5 USD by this website.
http://www.elance.com – One may bid for
projects posted on the website.
http://www.odesk.com – Similar as
elance.
I am sure the change will get reflected in UP economy within 2 years if
laptop distribution is done in right way. What’s your opinion? Feel free to add
more meat to it.