Dear Frederick, This is a great idea. We in the Philippines are also trying to put together educational and training materials for adults (SMEs, farmers cooperatives, parents and teachers associations, etc.) and kids out there in the rural areas. One of our priority thrusts is the establishment of telecenters in various parts of the country where both adults and children could have free or subsidized access to the Internet and its vast resouces. But due to the very thin lines connecting these telecenters to the outside world, users often have difficulty accessing useful information in the Internet. Hence, the need to provide them with ready and useful information either through video or CDs.
Could I request that the information/URLs you are able to gather together through this initiative be shared with the rest in the list? Thank you. Danny Pabellon Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My friends have fat pipes to the Internet. They have offered to download > useful distributions / collections of Free Software. My own plan is to > encourage the building up of 'CD Repositories' in Indian cities and > towns, that can then help to efficiently share such CDs among those who > don't have speedy connections to the Internet. > > What I badly need from you is: a set of URLs from where my friends could > download the distributions / software collections. Do send in a brief, > one-paragraph description of what the site contains, why it is a good > distribution, etc. > > We are also looking out specifically for educational software, Free > Software for kids, tools for professionals (e.g. doctors, scientists), > Free Software for the Windows platform (to convince those more reluctant > to shift over), and also user-friendly distributions. > > Thank you very much in advance. Let's make Free Software into what it > really should be -- an effective mechanism for the transfer of knowledge > to the Third World! Your help is needed... FN ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
