Another Syma Sayyah report: this time on the work of the Iranian NGO Science and Art Foundation‘s work in the city of Bam, which was almost destroyed by an earthquake a few years ago. The organization has been working with UNICEF and the Sharif University of Technology from Tehran in setting up computer courses for children. Most interesting fact: The Sharif University has designed a Persian version of the open-source operating system Linux. It is now being used to give the children of Bam access to the Internet. Also, check out the nice pictures which will give you yet another and different picture of Iran.
(Trivia note: all over Iran they have some preety gruesome turist posters with “before and after” pictures of Bam. I don’t know what they are supposed to do: make people come to Bam, or make them regret that they never had the chance before the city was destroyed).