[asterisk-biz] School on the web needs voip solution

[Suzanne Bowen]

Correction, and please accept my apology... Michel emailed and said the
original Tinyurl is incomplete. Correction:
http://tinyurl.com/schoolvoiprequest.

Suzanne Bowen

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Suzanne Bowen <suzanne at supertec.com> wrote:

> A school on the web is searching for a voip solution. The full description
> of what is needed is at http://tinyurl.com/schoolvoip ... original URL
> http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/2009/05/monetize_your_ip_communications_for_a_net_school_group.html.
> Anyone responding who can provide this solution, I will put you in touch
> with the third party requesting.
>
> More information I received this morning:
>
> For this project, the K-12 teachers would not be available from 8-4 pm. So
> most of the call traffic would be between 4-9 pm.
>
> To give you an idea of the scope, my friend just finished training 1400
> public school teachers in El Salvador. They have no plan for continuing
> education. The idea is to connect these 1400 people by way of a membership
> and a pay-as-you-go fee scheme.
>
> At best, they could call in and be connected immediately with one (or
> possible more) teachers in the same network. This way they could talk to one
> another on the phone in English.
>
> At the very least, If no one were available, they could have the
> opportunity to do a short listening and interactive learning activity based
> on (several thousand) mp3 podcasts which they could access and then record
> their responses. They would like to be able to save their responses as a
> .wav file.
>
> The Salvadorian education system has more than 40,000 public school
> teachers.
>
> The dream is to imagine such a system where people access native speaking
> voices on a variety of topics and then can either talk about them directly
> with another teacher, or respond in voicemail that could be saved for others
> to review.
>
> There would be a fully commercial application for this as well. But the
> idea is to do it with the public sector as a pilot. My friend thanks for
> your interest. Again the original request is at
> http://tinyurl.com/schoolvoip.
>
>  (One final item, not related... I want to thank Fred Posner of
> TeamForrest, Cox Communications, Skype, Digium, DIDX, Comtel-Networks, WSRE
> PBS, Max Glucksmann, Alan Pesatty, Steven Cayona, and Paul Turso Deane for
> helping with the linkingarms.org nonprofit telethon using open source
> technologies. We'll do a case study soon and post to TMCNET and voip-info.)
>
> --
> Suzanne Bowen, Phone 1 850 207 2598
> VP Marketing, Super Technologies, Inc. & DIDX
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