--- NSK <nsk2(a)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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