Angela wrote:
* Spoken Wikipedia by cell phone. Many areas of Africa have high
cell 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 textbooks
much 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