This old man and his grandson live in the village of Jaz-Kechuu, Kyrgyzstan. The place only got electricity last year. They’re watching a very traditional game of Kok-Boruu or, as everyone knows, “horseback polo with a goat”. The Kyrgyz government decided at the...
There has been bunch of releases with strange, complicated names lately: libkiwix 10.0, libzim 7, kiwix-tools 3.0, etc. So here what this all means: a new, cleaner way to figure out which zim files are available out there, and in which languages. And it’s all at...
Does your company have end-of-cycle computers that they would like to donate? if the answer is yes, then do reach out the Thaki folks at once so that these machines can get a second life in Lebanon and the Levant! Thaki brings digital literacy skills to kids across...
After announcing the libzim7 release a month ago, we are proud to follow-up with the release of version 3.0.0 of the Zim-tools. Zim-tools is the Swiss-army knife for manipulating ZIM files and is actually a suite of command line tools (more info on building and...
This is with great joy that we can announce the official release of libzim 7.0.0. This is one of the biggest releases we have ever made: Almost one year of effort; 15,000 lines of code changed; Nearly 100 tickets closed; Code coverage increased from 50% to 85%. What...
How do you define success? How do you know that your project is really having an impact? Ross Patrick Azogbonon is a teacher in Benin. We’d never heard of him before he simply tweeted this photo a couple of weeks ago. He found Kiwix to be so useful that he and...
Maxwell Beganim is an Educator at the Tertiary and Secondary level. He is also a Wikipedian, a member of Open Foundation West Africa and wanted to train students on Open Knowledge. But he needed a solution to a long standing problem of connectivity in the region. How...
In villages of the Indian Himalayas of Ladakh, over 75% of students and adult learners have had no access to learning since the start of the COVID 19 crisis. Many places don’t have 3G towers in their villages. Most can’t afford the high data charges...
We are Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s finalists for their Solve Digital Inclusion challenge! After Qatar Foundation’s WISE earlier this Summer, this is the second global final this year for Kiwix – it looks like people are starting to get...
Wie kommt “das Internet” in entlegene Gebiete? Das Antwort liegt in der heutigen Österreich 1-Matrix-Sendung! https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20210709/644820/Internet-in-a-box Früher bei der Ö1:...
