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This work was initially started by the [http://somosazucar.org/ Peru Local Lab] to accomplish the real needs that Lab people faced during the work on [[Deployment_Team/Peru/Puno|Puno pilot program]].

This work was initially started by the [http://somosazucar.org/ Peru Local Lab] to accomplish the real needs that Lab people faced during the work on [[Deployment_Team/Peru/Puno|Puno pilot program]].

The Sugar Network is an initiative to try to leverage collaborative, contributing, and learning behaviour in Sugar Learning Platform. It was started as the only possible option for Sugar deployments which lack Internet connectivity, in particular Peru, but it also targets Internet-enabled environments.

The major purpose are:

* Connect students and teachers, from different Internet-less schools, using hight-level software applications that are analogs of existing in the Internet services, like Wiki;

 

* Connect students and teachers with educators, trainers and supporters that work especially in local deployment but are located far from schools and can't visit schools on regular basis;

* Be more concentrated on interactions between humans rather than between computers;

* Connect students and teachers (with deployment people help) with the rest of Sugar community (that can reuse the same software being connected via the Internet);

* There is a real need to support Internet-less environments (but not only those);

* In case of having connectivity, Sugar Network should be still useful by providing close integration of its social instruments with the rest of Sugar Platform.

* The list of provided services should cover the full circle of collaboration behavior within the Sugar community to make Sugar Network the central place for collaboration;

* Not trying to reinvent the Internet by duplicating all services available there making them off-line;

* The list of provided services should be thought to make the Sugar Network useful also when operating on-line;

* Support decentralized collaboration model to stimulate direct contacts (e.g.: between software creators and users);

* Stimulate a "doing" workflow.

 

Think about the Sugar Network more in meaning of [[Wikipedia:Social_network|Social networks]] rather in meaning of [[Wikipedia:Tcp/ip|TCP/IP networks]]. The intentions might be better explained by the [[Platform_Team/Sugar_Network/Concept#Needs|Needs]] that Sugar Network is trying to solve.

== Further reading ==

== Further reading ==