I started life as an archaeologist before retraining in IT and have wide experience of work in the voluntary / not for profit and continuing education sectors in Scotland where I am usually based. This has included database design, hardware support, software support, website design and tuition.
From 2009 - 2010 I was in Nairobi, Kenya as Assistive Technology Tutor with the Kenyan Society for the Blind. Then came two years in Ethiopia, working with the Addis Ababa HIV / AIDS Prevention and Control Office and the Ethiopian Midwives Association. My most recent stint abroad was another two years in Papua New Guinea as Provincial Capacity Building ICT Advisor on a United Nations Development Program / Ministry of Finance project. For now I am back in Scotland and a part time Open University tutor.
You can visit my website at http://tinyurl.com/visimpscot .
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I agree Jorge, it is difficult to see any commercial logic for locking up the code from which they cannot have made any money for years.
The education system in the UK is different from that in the US but the picture of industrial education sounds familiar. Some of my most enjoyable work has been in the community education / adult learner sector where there is much more freedom to experiment and innovate.