Digital Guyana

When we came to Guyana we didn’t quite know what to expect in terms of the hardware or software that would be available. As it happens, some of the best software available doesn’t cost a penny so we brought a memory stick stuffed with free software.

At various stages of the course we’ll be using:

• Audacity (audio editing)
• Firefox (web browser)
• Filezilla (FTP client)
• GIMP (image editing)
• Open Office (word processing, spreadsheets, databases and presentations)
• VLC (media player)
• WordPress (blogging platform)

A number of the students clearly don’t lose much sleep worrying about copyright infringement, but the number of viruses we’ve encountered shows the problem with using ‘unofficial’ copies of software.

If we can get more people using the great, freely available software that’s out there then so much the better.