Angela wrote:
* Spoken Wikipedia by cell phone. Many areas of Africa have highcell phone coverage with access to SMS. Teemu Leinonen of the University of Art and Design Helsinki is working on a project to allow a user to send an SMS with the article title to a phone number. A few seconds later, they get a call on their cell phone with a (usually machine-generated) spoken version of the article they requested.
Heh! All the more incentive to get more people to participate in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia]] (shameless plug)! Nobody really wants machine-generated spoken versions when a real human-spoken version is available. :)
* Wikibooks/Wikiversity/E-learning. With the price of textbooksmuch higher in South Africa than in developed countriesfree textbooks are of extreme importance, and Wikibooks could provide the content needed for initiatives to deliver this.
This is assuming that the larger part of the cost of textbooks is copyright licenses. I would imagine that it is instead the production costs of actual books, and obviously free content won't help that.
Timwi