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Index EGranary Digital Library

The eGranary Digital Library is a product of the WiderNet Project, a non-profit aimed at providing access to information technology and library services in developing countries.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 46 relations: Africa, Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, Bangladesh, Bonny Norton, Byte, CD-ROM, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Columbia University, Computer technology for developing areas, Copyleft, Cornell University, Creative Commons, Crowdsourcing, Developing country, Drupal, Free content, Fulbright Program, Hard disk drive, Hesperian Health Guides, India, Intel, Khan Academy, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, MIT OpenCourseWare, Moodle, MySQL, Nigeria, Online public access catalog, Papua New Guinea, PHP, Proxy server, Public domain, Search engine, UNESCO, University of Jos, Value-added reseller, VuFind, Web 2.0, Web cache, Web portal, Wikipedia, Wireless LAN, WordPress, World Bank Group, World Health Organization.

  2. Educational technology non-profits
  3. Information and communication technologies for development

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Apache Lucene

Apache Lucene is a free and open-source search engine software library, originally written in Java by Doug Cutting.

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Apache Solr

Solr (pronounced "solar") is an open-source enterprise-search platform, written in Java.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.

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Bonny Norton

Bonny Norton,, is a professor and distinguished university scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada.

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Byte

The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.

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CD-ROM

A CD-ROM (compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data computers can read—but not write or erase—CD-ROMs.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Computer technology for developing areas

Computer technology for developing areas is a field focused on using technology to improve the quality of life and support economic development in regions with limited access to resources and infrastructure. EGranary Digital Library and Computer technology for developing areas are information and communication technologies for development.

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Copyleft

Copyleft is the legal technique of granting certain freedoms over copies of copyrighted works with the requirement that the same rights be preserved in derivative works.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.

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Creative Commons

Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.

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Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing involves a large group of dispersed participants contributing or producing goods or services—including ideas, votes, micro-tasks, and finances—for payment or as volunteers.

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Developing country

A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.

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Drupal

Drupal is a free and open-source web content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

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Free content

Free content, libre content, libre information, or free information is any kind of creative work, such as a work of art, a book, a software program, or any other creative content unrestricted by copyright and other legal limitations on use.

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Fulbright Program

The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills.

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.

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Hesperian Health Guides

Hesperian Health Guides, formerly known as Hesperian Foundation, is a nongovernmental non-profit organization publishing health guides for trained and untrained people to care for themselves and others.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Intel

Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.

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Khan Academy

Khan Academy is an American non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by Sal Khan. EGranary Digital Library and Khan Academy are educational technology non-profits.

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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network.

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MIT OpenCourseWare

MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to publish all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere.

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Moodle

Moodle is a free and open-source learning management system written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

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MySQL

MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.

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Online public access catalog

The online public access catalog (OPAC), now frequently synonymous with library catalog, is an online database of materials held by a library or group of libraries.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).

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PHP

PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development.

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Proxy server

In computer networking, a proxy server is a server application that acts as an intermediary between a client requesting a resource and the server providing that resource.

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Public domain

The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Search engine

A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user's query.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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University of Jos

The University of Jos, abbreviated as Unijos, is a federal university in Jos, Plateau State, central Nigeria.

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Value-added reseller

A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds features or services to an existing product, then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated or complete "turn-key" product.

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VuFind

VuFind is an open-source library search engine that allows users to search and browse beyond the resources of a traditional Online public access catalog (OPAC).

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Web 2.0

Web 2.0 (also known as participative (or participatory) web and social web) refers to websites that emphasize user-generated content, ease of use, participatory culture, and interoperability (i.e., compatibility with other products, systems, and devices) for end users.

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Web cache

A Web cache (or HTTP cache) is a system for optimizing the World Wide Web.

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Web portal

A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way.

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Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki.

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Wireless LAN

A wireless LAN (WLAN) is a wireless computer network that links two or more devices using wireless communication to form a local area network (LAN) within a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, campus, or office building.

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WordPress

WordPress (also known as WP or WordPress.org) is a web content management system.

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World Bank Group

The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries.

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World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.

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See also

Educational technology non-profits

Information and communication technologies for development

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGranary_Digital_Library

Also known as EGranary, EGranary Digital Libraries, WiderNet Project.