Grants:IdeaLab/Offline Access to Wikipedia in Community Schools

Offline Access to Wikipedia in Community Schools

'Digital-Divide' is something that is obstructing the information flow in the developing and underdeveloped countries. Nepal, is developing country where majority students are deprived of external information, internet is still a nightmare.

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created on13:14, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Project idea edit

What is the problem you're trying to solve? edit

Only poor go to community and students there have no access to computer and internet. Most of the school do not have internet either.

What is your solution? edit

Offline Wikipedia, will facilitate school (mostly Government schools, in remote location) to utilize the Wikipedia dump resource in their school. Both teacher and students will be given guidance to use Wikipedia and its sister sites to grab information. Wikipedia will work as reference to their education.

Goals edit

To take the scope of Wikipedia to the mass audience, targeted and backward students and teachers are the case here. We

Get Involved edit

Participants edit

Students and Teachers from Community Schools of Nepal of all classes and ages.

Endorsements edit

We have a background working as Linux volunteer; mainly focused on resource sharing, training and adopting open-source.

This sounds it may be a good idea, but if you are realy interesting try to specify it more deeply. I cannot e.g. image how this could work in practies. Have you heard about OLPC programe (One Laptop per Children - give laptop to children in Latin America, who does not have an access to internet with a download of Wikipedia) - so they can learn. How your idea would work? What is the female role in Nepal? I there mixed classes? Juandev (talk) 18:12, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

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Project plan edit

Activities edit

Download the Wikipedia dump file.
Upgrade the available hardware resource in the Schools (server computer, networking, separate slave hardisk etc).
Train the students and teachers to use Wikipedia effectively. (knowledge of localhost, local server, mysql, xampp)
Support them back. (Maintaining database)
Encourage them to contribute Wikipedia.

Budget edit

We target to support at least 10 or more Community Schools.

Fair and Accommodation, Maintenance Follow up: 1000 USD
Hardware and Networking Equipments: 5000 USD
Support and Internet Charges: Free, with collaboration with Local ISPs.

Community engagement edit

This project is genuinely an end level approach to take Wikipedia to grass level by addressing the difference of have one's and have not one's. This targets those students and schools who have no access to internet and computer lab.

Sustainability edit

After the project to handed to school, the school administration can create a fund for depreciation of Computer system and sustain it.
Also, school can add the Computer science subject in syllabus.

Measures of success edit

This project will target the most deprived students with access to internet and information the outside world is seeking.

Students gets the basic of community learning and interactive learning difference can be measured later.
Or, with other schools students who have no access to this service then.

Project team edit

Ozonesn Researcher and IT personnal
Suman Sapkota Web developer and programmer.
Arun Khanal Computer lecturer and Database Administrator.

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