Offline connectivity in Ghana: How they do it

Offline connectivity in Ghana: How they do it

2021, Desktop, Use case

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...
Deploying Ladakhipedia offline

Deploying Ladakhipedia offline

2021, Use case

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...
Distributed Wikipedia Mirror Update

Distributed Wikipedia Mirror Update

2021, Content, Release notes, Use case

Distributed Wikipedia Mirror and Kiwix projects are happy to the announce general availability of updated English and Turkish mirrors, along with new languages: Burmese, Arabic, Chinese and Russian. A handy, up-to-date list can be found at ipfs.kiwix.org, and in...
New use case: Literate Earth

New use case: Literate Earth

2021, Hotspot, Use case

The Literate Earth Project is a US-based non-profit. They manage 16 schools in Uganda, and another at the Imvepi refugee camp. They have been active for the past ten years already. Literate Earth reached out because their next step is to deploy Raspberry Pi hotspots...
Zero-rating is bad, except when it’s good

Zero-rating is bad, except when it’s good

2020, Use case

Zero-rating -the idea of making some internet content entirely free to access (ie no data charges)- is an idea that we at Kiwix do not support as a matter of principle. We think it goes against the whole idea of net-neutrality, and it is not a good thing for the...