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Digital libraries for the developing world

Digital libraries for the developing world F O R U M u u u u U N D E R D E V E L O P M E N T Digital Libraries for the Developing World Digital libraries (DLs) are the killer app for information goes down. It can be carried around and distributed technology in developing countries. Priorities here physically even in countries with unreliable infrastructure include health, agriculture, nutrition, hygiene, sanitation, or repressive regimes. and safe drinking water. Computers are not a priority, but Computers are not as hard to come by in developsimple, reliable access to targeted information meeting ing countries as one might think. Their extraordinary rate these basic needs certainly is. DLs can assist human of obsolescence, coupled with the developed world ™s development by providing a noncommercial mechanism voracious appetite for the latest and greatest, makes for distributing humanitarian information on the priorities low-end machines essentially free. Instead of clogging listed above. Many other areas, ranging from disaster landfill sites, many (though certainly not enough) find relief to medical education, from the preservation and their way to developing countries. Of course, they tend propagation of indigenous culture to educational materito be low-end. A worse problem in our http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png interactions Association for Computing Machinery

Digital libraries for the developing world

Witten, Ian H.
interactions , Volume 13 (4) – Jul 1, 2006
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Association for Computing Machinery
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Copyright © 2006 by ACM Inc.
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1072-5520
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10.1145/1142169.1142187
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F O R U M u u u u U N D E R D E V E L O P M E N T Digital Libraries for the Developing World Digital libraries (DLs) are the killer app for information goes down. It can be carried around and distributed technology in developing countries. Priorities here physically even in countries with unreliable infrastructure include health, agriculture, nutrition, hygiene, sanitation, or repressive regimes. and safe drinking water. Computers are not a priority, but Computers are not as hard to come by in developsimple, reliable access to targeted information meeting ing countries as one might think. Their extraordinary rate these basic needs certainly is. DLs can assist human of obsolescence, coupled with the developed world ™s development by providing a noncommercial mechanism voracious appetite for the latest and greatest, makes for distributing humanitarian information on the priorities low-end machines essentially free. Instead of clogging listed above. Many other areas, ranging from disaster landfill sites, many (though certainly not enough) find relief to medical education, from the preservation and their way to developing countries. Of course, they tend propagation of indigenous culture to educational materito be low-end. A worse problem in our

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