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Sports / Re: Nigeria Vs Germany: U20 World Cup (0 - 1) On 11th June 2015 by cypher001(m): 2:28pm On Jun 09, 2015 |
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Education / Re: Nigerian Offline Library Begins Operation by cypher001(m): 2:18pm On Jun 09, 2015 |
[quote author=gateleo post=34585191]More than 110 million people in Nigeria are still not connected to the internet largely because of poor infrastructure and a lack of fiber and mobile networks make it expensive and unreliable. But now an ambitious project aims to give millions of students in the country access to a vast library of digital content. But rather than depending on an internet connection to access it, the project has developed the resource for offline viewing. The eGranary Digital Library – also known as The Internet in a Box – has been developed by a US-based non-profit called the WiderNet Project. “It gives me up-to-date information unlike the normal library, where textbooks sometimes are outdated,” Abubakar Mohammed, a final year law student at Ahmadu Bello University, told Al Jazeera. “It gives me an opportunity to access libraries not only in Nigeria but libraries outside.” The project puts millions of digital documents, including websites, multimedia and academic texts. Good thread.. |
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