The Indian Minister of Information Technology, Dayanidhi Maran released the CD on open-eNRICH at the India and ICTs pavilion at the World Summit on Information Society at Tunis. Dr B Shadrach, Director, OneWorld South Asia and Mr D C Misra, from NIC were present.
Open eNRICH is an open source software tool for the creation and exchange of locally relevant knowledge within and between communities in developing countries. The tool enables grassroots communities share their local knowledge among the local people in local languages.
The tool has been developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) of the Indian government in collaboration with OneWorld and UNESCO with support from OKN Africa and OneWorld South Asia.
Open eNRICH is tailored to operate in both on-line and/or off-line contexts. In the former case, a single Open eNRICH system can support multiple views onto its content, each tailored to a community viewing the system over the Internet. In the latter case, Open eNRICH may operate in a peer-to-peer distributed network, with individual systems exchanging content over the Internet, wired or wireless networks, broadcast satellites and physical media such as floppy and compact disks.
The software is being promoted and used in Africa, South Asia in the Open Knowledge Network Programme by the grassroots communities.
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