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On Thursday 27 February 2003 14:26, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe used the keyboard to enter the following:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:54:25AM +0530, Amish Munshi wrote:
Dr. D. B. Phatak wants to create an offline internet. It will be a collection of sites which are of importance. This is for the schools and colleges that do not have internet access.
Although the real picture is much bigger, called the "Affordable Solutions Lab" here at KReSIT, the basic idea is to create an offline _network_ of educational institutes. Even in the absence of connectivity (not Internet), a CD full of educational content will be useful, I think. The whole project aims to get students as well as teachers all over the country, irrespective of _Internet_ connectivity, to generate educational content at all levels of schooling.
This is right, you have just explained the topic in a better way that I did, but the first thing that will be required is to get the websites (or free/open content). Only then can we plan to distribute it. Offline interenet is not the only portion that will exist on these CD's but will be approx 98% of the content of these CD's, Other content may include a few books which some authors might like to contribute but are not willing to put it up on the Internet.
Sameer.
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