[Foundation-l] Sat-Ed - Rural Education

[Platonides]

John Hawker Sat-Ed wrote:
> Dear Wikipedia Foundation,
> 
> My apologies if this is inappropriate or considered spam.
> 
> I read today with great interest the story on providing the Wikipedia 
> most popular stories on a CD.
> 
> Sat-Ed provides connectivity to rural sites via satellite.
> 
> www.sat-ed.com
> 
> While we do use Internet at the sites, we are always trying to cache as 
> much content on site as possiblem, this is because we need to protect 
> the bandwidth as much as possible.
> 
> I would be very interested in placing the CD contents on our "Digital 
> Library" at our sites and school sites for evaluation.
> 
> While I assume the first ones are in English, our prime languages at the 
> moment are Thai, Malay and Vietnamese with Mandarin (for mainland China) 
> soon.
> 
> Can you please suggest the technical and marketing people we can talk 
> with to arrange this.
> 
> We only have a few sites at the moment, in Thailand, schools in Thailand 
> and test sites in Ghana, with Vietnam, Malaysia and PRC to follow very soon.
> 
> Your thoughts also on what we do and how we can improve greatly welcome.
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> 
> John Hawker

I'd recommend you setting up a Wikipedia mirror of those wikis using the 
database dumps found at http://download.wikimedia.org/