--- NSK nsk2@wikinerds.org wrote:
I have extreme interesting in national development of countries in Africa, South America and Asia: I am always thinking how I could help the people living there. How have you tried to reach north Africa, what is WMF's position on bringing free knowledge in the Third World and what do you think that residents of Europe, North America and Oceania can do via the Internet for the rest of the planet?
"Imagine a world in which every person has free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
"...we are pursuing grants to fund the packaging and distribution of Wikimedia content to places that do not have access to the Internet."
from http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising (linked from over 2 million pages across all Wikimedia projects)
At least one grant we are interested in would fund the printing of as-yet-to-be-written high school biology textbooks in both English and French that would be distributed to students in Africa. Content development for that would happen on Wikibooks.
See also: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants
-- mav
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