EGranary Digital Library, the Glossary
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
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.
- Educational technology non-profits
- Information and communication technologies for development
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
See EGranary Digital Library and Africa
Apache Lucene
Apache Lucene is a free and open-source search engine software library, originally written in Java by Doug Cutting.
See EGranary Digital Library and Apache Lucene
Apache Solr
Solr (pronounced "solar") is an open-source enterprise-search platform, written in Java.
See EGranary Digital Library and Apache Solr
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
See EGranary Digital Library and Bangladesh
Bonny Norton
Bonny Norton,, is a professor and distinguished university scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada.
See EGranary Digital Library and Bonny Norton
Byte
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.
See EGranary Digital Library and Byte
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and CD-ROM
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States.
See EGranary Digital Library and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Columbia University
Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.
See EGranary Digital Library and Columbia University
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Computer technology for developing areas
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Copyleft
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.
See EGranary Digital Library and Cornell University
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Creative Commons
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Crowdsourcing
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Developing country
Drupal
Drupal is a free and open-source web content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.
See EGranary Digital Library and Drupal
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Free content
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Fulbright Program
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Hard disk drive
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Hesperian Health Guides
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
See EGranary Digital Library and India
Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.
See EGranary Digital Library and Intel
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Khan Academy
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and MIT OpenCourseWare
Moodle
Moodle is a free and open-source learning management system written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.
See EGranary Digital Library and Moodle
MySQL
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).
See EGranary Digital Library and MySQL
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.
See EGranary Digital Library and Nigeria
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Online public access catalog
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).
See EGranary Digital Library and Papua New Guinea
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development.
See EGranary Digital Library and PHP
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Proxy server
Public domain
The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.
See EGranary Digital Library and Public domain
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Search engine
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and UNESCO
University of Jos
The University of Jos, abbreviated as Unijos, is a federal university in Jos, Plateau State, central Nigeria.
See EGranary Digital Library and University of Jos
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Value-added reseller
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).
See EGranary Digital Library and VuFind
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Web 2.0
Web cache
A Web cache (or HTTP cache) is a system for optimizing the World Wide Web.
See EGranary Digital Library and Web cache
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Web portal
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Wikipedia
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.
See EGranary Digital Library and Wireless LAN
WordPress
WordPress (also known as WP or WordPress.org) is a web content management system.
See EGranary Digital Library and WordPress
World Bank Group
The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries.
See EGranary Digital Library and World Bank Group
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
See EGranary Digital Library and World Health Organization
See also
Educational technology non-profits
- ACUTA
- Akshaya project
- BibleProject
- Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California
- Curriki
- EGranary Digital Library
- ETwinning
- Generation YES
- International Federation for Learning, Education, and Training Systems Interoperability
- Internet-in-a-Box
- Kepler (institution)
- Khan Academy
- Mindset Network
- Open Syllabus Project
- P2PU
- PongSat
- Project Gyanodaya
- Raspberry Pi Foundation
- The Rumie Initiative
- University of Arkansas Office of Distance Education
- Why U
- World History Encyclopedia
- World Possible
Information and communication technologies for development
- African Internet Governance Forum
- Classmate PC
- Community informatics
- Computer technology for developing areas
- Crisis mapping
- Declaration of Helsinki (Information Technology)
- Development informatics
- Digital textbook
- Dimagi
- E-readiness
- ECOM-LAC
- EGranary Digital Library
- ELAC Action Plans
- European Dialogue on Internet Governance
- Geekcorps
- Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development
- Globaloria
- Huawei 4G eLTE
- ICT4peace
- InfoDev
- International Open Source Network
- Internationalization and localization
- Internet Governance Forum
- Internet-in-a-Box
- Inveneo
- List of ICT4D organizations
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands)
- Nation.1
- Nick Martin (educator)
- OLPC XO
- One Laptop per Child
- One-to-one computing
- Personal Internet Communicator
- Sama (company)
- Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions
- Tactical Technology Collective
- Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA)
- Telecentre
- United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force
- VIA pc-1 Initiative
- Wamani
- Web 2.0 for development
- World Summit on the Information Society
- World Wide Web Foundation
- ZaMirNET
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGranary_Digital_Library
Also known as EGranary, EGranary Digital Libraries, WiderNet Project.