Internet-in-a-box
Internet-in-a-box
Software solution that can be implemented in a small, low-cost device to provide essential Internet resources without any Internet connection
Internet-in-a-Box is software solution that can be implemented in a small, low-cost device to provide essential Internet resources without any Internet connection. It provides a local copy of a terabyte of the world’s Free information. It includes Wikipedia in 37 languages, a library of 40,000 e-books, most of the world’s open source software and source code, hundreds of hours of instructional videos, and world-wide mapping down to street level.
There are ongoing trial deployments in more than a dozen countries. This Open Source project is being developed by volunteers in southern California and around the world, and are currently seeking schools and communities worldwide who would benefit from this work.
Global.
Implementing organizations include several orphanages and schools in Haiti to a youth community in Malaysia, to villages in Northern India, to a girls science school in Rwanda, to rural communities and libraries across southwest Ghana, and more broad Central American deployments like Nicaragua, Costa Rica and 6 schools in the Dominican Republic beginning late 2015.
Free. This is an open source product.
Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Internet and broadband underserved areas and communities.
