Kiwix
Emmanuel Engelhart and Renaud Gaudin
Free and open-source offline reader created to allow offline access to Wikipedia and other projects from the Wikimedia Foundation
Kiwix is a free and open-source offline reader created to allow offline access to Wikipedia and other projects from the Wikimedia Foundation as well as public domain texts from the Project Gutenberg, Wiktionary, TED talks and others. Available in more than 100 languages, Kiwix has been included in several high-profile projects, like encyclopedic access in Cuba and Google Impact Challenge’s recipient Bibliothèques Sans Frontières.
It is currently available for Windows, GNU/Linux, Android, iOS and macOS.
Global.
Many known organizations use Kiwix as a component of their projects. Examples include:
– The Afripedia Project set up kiwix servers in French-speaking universities (some of them with no Internet access) in 11 African countries.
– Installed on the computers used for the One Laptop per Child project.
– Installed on Raspberry Pis for use in schools with no electricity in Tanzania by the Tanzania Development Trust.
– Installed on tablets in schools in Mali in the MALebooks project.
– Deployed in Benin during teacher training seminars run by Zedaga, a Swiss NGO specialized in education.
– A special version for the organization SOS Children’s Villages was developed, initially for developing countries, but it is also used in the developed world.
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.
