Open Knowledge Network

http://www.dgroups.org/groups/OKN/index.cfm?CookieTested=TRUE


Group that does development oriented stuff involving production of local content. They seem to be using kiosk, Internet cafes and allow local people to publish content to be distributed using sneakernet or e-mail. Some snippets from their progress report which illustrate the type of work they are doing:

Screens are provided in both English and Swahili for users at the Access Points to contribute content in either language. For those Access Points with e-mail connectivity, content is uploaded to the Hub via a short e-mail exchange. Access Points without e-mail connection write the local content to a floppy disk, which can be hand-carried to a regional office or Cybercafe and e-mailed to a Hub. Knowledge Workers at the Hubs check and tag the local content with metadata and publish the data making it available to all Access Points. The content is downloaded to Access Points via the WorldSpace Afristar satellite.

And:

...Content from all Access Points appears in the Access Point’s Daily Newssheet. This presents the newest content grouped by subject area – e.g. “Kids Corner”, “Help with Sanitation”, “AIDS News”, “Classified Adverts” etc. The user can navigate to all the OKN content from the newssheet...