From time to time also our ICT department has a relaxed time: on the 19th of October we attended the workshop/introduction of the new school management software ‘SchoolLink‘ in Ongwediva. Although the idea of having such an standardized and centralized system is convincing I doubt that the system will come operational in January. As most …
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The ‘Telecom Namibia ICT Summit 2010’, the biggest event for the country’s ICT industry, took place from the 7th to the 8th. Thanks to our Director who officially approved the trip we were able to spent some interesting and intense days in Windhoek – on government expense of course. Summits in Africa seems not to …
Up since 5.30, only a banana and java for breakfast when driving straight to work from Ongwediva – quite a bit hungry. What’s gonna be for lunch in a few? Most likely a small restaurant called ‘GOMA food service’ which is hidden behind the Open Market and just five minutes from the Ministry on food. …
The pictures from the price giving ceremony that took place on June 4th in Okahao made it to our office three weeks ago. They now found their way into the web thanks to the upcoming elections which messed up yesterdays planning: I had a car ‘booked’ and a tight schedule to repair some computers in …
As mentioned in a previous thread new equipment is pretty common in our office. Right now I have something on my table which is (or was, thanks to the iPad) even in Europa a rarity: a Tablet PC! I bed the only in the whole 4-O-Region. The other less handy equipment was on its way …
The Namibians are no coffee drinker – if they do so, it’s usually half a cup of brown sugar with a spoon of Ricoffy instant coffee (Nestlé what else…). In Windhoek you’ll find a couple of good places (e.g. Craft Centre) to have a Espresso or Latte macchiato. In the 4-O-Region I’ve been able to …
Since a few weeks we do have our Xnet ADSL internet access up and running in the main building. Took us almost three months to get it due to a billing glitch with the Telecom for an existing installation at our library in Outapi. After using a slow and expensive prepaid 3G solution from CellOne …
Pretty unappetizing. The picture should illustrate the issue with the mentioned bullbar in the previous post. The donkey bump happened during lunchtime the day I collected my car from the garage in Ongwediva: a clean road on the outward journey, a totally damaged Hilux towed in when leaving Oshakati – donkey puree close to Outapi. …
Friday last week we met with the IT technicians from the Ohangwena, Oshana and Oshikoto regions at the Ministry of Education (MoE) in Ondangwa for the first time (Oshikoto and Ohangwena sharing the same premises there). After having three hours tech talks we also had the chance to met the Director for the Oshikoto region …
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People told me that Oshakati is one of the hot spots in the North when it comes to street crime. Last Saturday proved that for me. Around 1.p.m I was walking from my car to the GAME store when two guys approached me and one of them tried to get my attention with a cell …