This is good news. I am interested in how this will work. How will wikipedia be deployed? Will this be by CD? The reason I am asking this is because I am involved in running a project that aims to upgrade the skills of 22,000 nurses in Kenya from Certificate to Diploma level through e-learning. The upgrading has previously been done through traditional classroom teaching meaning we could only upgrade a few nurses per year since they had to leave their work stations thus affecting the delivery of health services. I would be interested in installing wikipedia in stand alone machines that are used for this purpose. Since we do not have Internet access and the course is CD based, there is a shortage of reference material. Wikipedia could go a long way in enabling us alleviate this problem. I would also be interested in any other relevant materials you may know about that we can deploy.
Regards Martin Kinyua [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant Project Manager, E-Learning African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) Nairobi, Kenya -----Original Message----- From: Andy Carvin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 5:02 PM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DDN] Jimmy Wales announces Wikipedia/$100 laptop alliance, Wikiversity, Wikiwyg Today at the second annual Wikimania conference, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that MIT's $100 laptops will all include a copy of Wikipedia. He also announced the launch of Wikiversity, an online community for generating learning materials, and Wikiwyg, a easy-to-use interface for editing Wikipedia, developed in conjunction with SocialText. More here: http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/08/jimmy_wales_announce.html -- ------------------------------ Andy Carvin acarvin (at) edc . org andycarvin (at) yahoo . com http://www.andycarvin.com http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.pbs.org/learningnow ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
