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MISTICA: Digital libraries

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Tue Jun 24 2003 - 08:59:36 AST

>Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:25:47 -0300
>To: "Caribbean ICT virtual community CIVIC" <[email protected]>
>From: "D. Williams" <[email protected]>
>Subject: [icacaribbean] Digital libraries
>Cc: <[email protected]>
>
>Does CIVIC know about the work of Dr. Michel Loots <[email protected]>
>and others, the Human Info NGO Network <www.humaninfo.org> and the New
>Zealand Digital Library Project <www.nzdl.org> ?
>

>The project aims to " bridge the digital divide and empower ... with
>essential information". Information, initially from the UN agencies, is
>made available on CD, and accessible through the open source/public domain
>Greenstone indexing software, now available from UNESCO. I have been
>working for some time on a project to capture, secure (from the weather
>and the bugs) and make available the local content of two small special
>libraries here using Dr Loots' methods. This would also be a
>pilot/feasibility study towards replication of the project with other
>similar collections in the region.
>
>If you don't already know about the Human Info CDs please investigate -
>this is a truly vast source of useful development information. C'est aussi
>en francais. Yo soy no seguro por espanol, pero comprueba/pregunta (?) [I
>don't know for Spanish but do check]
>
>Deirdre
>
>"The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge"
>Sir William Arthur Lewis.
>
>"Language has always been the perfect instrument of empire."
> --Antonio de Nebrija, Granidtica Castellana

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que vive en St Lucie y es parte de nuestra comunicad Mistica.

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