Digital libraries for the developing world
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Export citationWitten, I.H. (2001). Digital libraries for the developing world. Interactions, 13(4), 20-21.
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Abstract
Digital libraries (DLs) are the killer app for information technology in developing countries. Priorities here include health, agriculture, nutrition, hygiene, sanitation, and safe drinking water. Computers are not a priority, but simple, reliable access to targeted information meeting these basic needs certainly is. DLs can assist human development by providing a non-commercial mechanism for distributing humanitarian information on topics such as health, agriculture, nutrition, hygiene, sanitation, and water supply. Many other areas, ranging from disaster relief to medical education, from the preservation and propagation of indigenous culture to educational material that addresses specific community problems, also benefit from new methods of information distribution.
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2006Type
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ACM
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This is an author’s version of an article published in the journal: Interactions. Copyright © 2008 ACM.