Thanks for pointing this out Erik, I have been working with this project now for some time, and I know they were preparing to make a public announcement about the project by the end of this month.

I would like to invite all wikibookians, and all wikimedians who are interested, to help with a final effort to proof-read these e-primers, to ensure that the transfer process was completed succesfully. All of these e-primers are also available from the APDIP website in PDF and DOCBOOk formats. Specifically, the footnotes and citations need alot of work, and some books are going to need new reference templates to link to the appropriate "notes" pages.

Also, I would like anybody who is available to ensure that all the pages in these books are properly categorized, and that all these books properly appear on bookshelves.

Hopefully, this project will bring a little much-needed publicity to our little project.

--Andrew Whitworth (User:Whiteknight)

From: "Erik Moeller" erik@wikimedia.org Reply-To: Wikimedia textbook discussion textbook-l@wikimedia.org To: "Wikimedia textbook discussion" textbook-l@wikimedia.org,"Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@wikimedia.org Subject: [Textbook-l] APDIP Donates 15 e-Primers to Wikibooks Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:55:32 +0100

Discovered this by coincidence -- haven't seen anything on it in the mailing list archives.

http://www.apdip.net/news/wikibooks

APDIP Donates 15 e-Primers to Wikibooks

APDIP realizes how fast a published book gets out-of-date, especially in the fast-moving field of information and communications technology for development (ICT4D). APDIP has therefore donated 15 of its e-Primers to Wikibooks for free use and update (see list below).

15 e-Primers are now available on Wikibooks for all to use and update.

Nine of the e-Primers are part of APDIP's "e-Primers for the Information Economy, Society and Polity" series that detail the concepts, issues and trends surrounding different aspects of ICT4D, including e-commerce, education, e-government, Internet governance, legal and regulatory issues, and ICT for poverty reduction.

Six of the e-Primers are part of the "e-Primers on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)" series that introduce various aspects of FOSS, including education, government policy, licensing, localization and open standards. The FOSS series of e-Primers is developed by the International Open Source Network (http://www.iosn.net), an initiative of UNDP-APDIP supported by the International Development Research Centre of Canada.

Wikibooks is our chosen platform because it facilitates collaboration. Every day, volunteers are improving Wikibooks, making many changes, writing, updating, and correcting books. Wikibooks maintains quality control and has policies and guidelines that users need to follow. Wikibooks are also available for all to freely distribute and reproduce as covered by the GNU Free Documentation License.

We would like to invite you to visit the Wikibooks and contribute your knowledge and experiences in the relevant ICT4D topics. Forthcoming APDIP e-Primers on network infrastructure and security, open content and other topics will all automatically be donated to Wikibooks.

The original published e-Primers will remain in http://www.apdip.net/elibrary#iesp (and, in the case of the e-Primers on FOSS, at http://www.iosn.net/publications/foss-primers), and the version in Wikibook will be linked to these. This way any user will be able to see the original version alongside the (modified) Wikibook version.

e-Primers for the Information Economy, Society and Polity http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:ICT4D_Books

1. The Information Age

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Information_Age

2. Legal and Regulatory Issues in the Information Economy

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Legal_and_Regulatory_Issues_in_the_Information_...

3. Nets, Webs and the Information Infrastructure

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Nets,_Webs_and_the_Information_Infrastructure

4. Information and Communication Technologies for Poverty Alleviation

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Information_and_Communication_Technologies_for_... 5. Internet Governance http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Internet_Governance

6. e-Government

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/E-government

7. e-Commerce and e-Business

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/E-Commerce_and_E-Business

8. ICT in Education

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/ICT_in_Education

9. Genes, Technology and Policy

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Genes,_Technology_and_Policy

e-Primers on Free/Open Source Software http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:FOSS_Books

10. Free/Open Source Software: A General Introduction

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_A_General_Introduction

11. Free/Open Source Software: Education

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Education

12. Free/Open Source Software: Government Policy

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Government_Policy

13. Free/Open Source Software: Licensing

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Licensing

14. Free/Open Source Software: Localization

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Localization

15. Free/Open Source Software: Open Standards

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Open_Standar

-- Peace & Love, Erik

Member, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

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