iLabs

We met Prof. Jesus del Alamo last night and had nyama choma again. Prof. del Alamo is a MIT EECS professor and is part of the MIT iLabs project. He is en route to Uganda, where there is an iLabs pilot project. Basically, iLabs lets you operate real, physical laboratory equipment over the internet. Prof. del Alamo will be visiting us at Strathmore today and meeting with some students.

Earlier in the week, we met with members of the African Virtual University. We are working with AVU, MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW), to install an OCW mirror site at the University of Nairobi. Reaching the MIT via satellite link is very slow, so the idea is to install a local copy. The text and PDF content of the current OCW site is probably usable over a slow internet connection, but the multimedia content is not. Local mirror sites will be able to offer the audio and video of MIT lectures.