Re: APDIP Donates 15 e-Primers to Wikibooks

Thanks for pointing this out Erik, I have been working with this project now 
for some time, and I know they were preparing to make a public announcement 
about the project by the end of this month.

I would like to invite all wikibookians, and all wikimedians who are 
interested, to help with a final effort to proof-read these e-primers, to 
ensure that the transfer process was completed succesfully. All of these 
e-primers are also available from the APDIP website in PDF and DOCBOOk 
formats. Specifically, the footnotes and citations need alot of work, and 
some books are going to need new reference templates to link to the 
appropriate "notes" pages.

Also, I would like anybody who is available to ensure that all the pages in 
these books are properly categorized, and that all these books properly 
appear on bookshelves.

Hopefully, this project will bring a little much-needed publicity to our 
little project.

--Andrew Whitworth (User:Whiteknight)


>From: "Erik Moeller" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: Wikimedia textbook discussion <[email protected]>
>To: "Wikimedia textbook discussion" <[email protected]>,"Wikimedia 
>Foundation Mailing List" <[email protected]>
>Subject: [Textbook-l] APDIP Donates 15 e-Primers to Wikibooks
>Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:55:32 +0100
>
>Discovered this by coincidence -- haven't seen anything on it in the
>mailing list archives.
>
>http://www.apdip.net/news/wikibooks
>
>APDIP Donates 15 e-Primers to Wikibooks
>
>APDIP realizes how fast a published book gets out-of-date, especially
>in the fast-moving field of information and communications technology
>for development (ICT4D). APDIP has therefore donated 15 of its
>e-Primers to Wikibooks for free use and update (see list below).
>
>15 e-Primers are now available on Wikibooks for all to use and update.
>
>Nine of the e-Primers are part of APDIP's "e-Primers for the
>Information Economy, Society and Polity" series that detail the
>concepts, issues and trends surrounding different aspects of ICT4D,
>including e-commerce, education, e-government, Internet governance,
>legal and regulatory issues, and ICT for poverty reduction.
>
>Six of the e-Primers are part of the "e-Primers on Free/Open Source
>Software (FOSS)" series that introduce various aspects of FOSS,
>including education, government policy, licensing, localization and
>open standards. The FOSS series of e-Primers is developed by the
>International Open Source Network (http://www.iosn.net), an initiative
>of UNDP-APDIP supported by the International Development Research
>Centre of Canada.
>
>Wikibooks is our chosen platform because it facilitates collaboration.
>Every day, volunteers are improving Wikibooks, making many changes,
>writing, updating, and correcting books. Wikibooks maintains quality
>control and has policies and guidelines that users need to follow.
>Wikibooks are also available for all to freely distribute and
>reproduce as covered by the GNU Free Documentation License.
>
>We would like to invite you to visit the Wikibooks and contribute your
>knowledge and experiences in the relevant ICT4D topics. Forthcoming
>APDIP e-Primers on network infrastructure and security, open content
>and other topics will all automatically be donated to Wikibooks.
>
>The original published e-Primers will remain in
>http://www.apdip.net/elibrary#iesp (and, in the case of the e-Primers
>on FOSS, at http://www.iosn.net/publications/foss-primers), and the
>version in Wikibook will be linked to these. This way any user will be
>able to see the original version alongside the (modified) Wikibook
>version.
>
>
>e-Primers for the Information Economy, Society and Polity
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:ICT4D_Books
>
>1. The Information Age
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Information_Age
>
>2. Legal and Regulatory Issues in the Information Economy
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Legal_and_Regulatory_Issues_in_the_Information_Economy
>
>3. Nets, Webs and the Information Infrastructure
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Nets,_Webs_and_the_Information_Infrastructure
>
>4. Information and Communication Technologies for Poverty Alleviation
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Information_and_Communication_Technologies_for_Poverty_Alleviation
>5. Internet Governance
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Internet_Governance
>
>6. e-Government
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/E-government
>
>7. e-Commerce and e-Business
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/E-Commerce_and_E-Business
>
>8. ICT in Education
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/ICT_in_Education
>
>9. Genes, Technology and Policy
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Genes,_Technology_and_Policy
>
>
>e-Primers on Free/Open Source Software
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:FOSS_Books
>
>10. Free/Open Source Software: A General Introduction
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_A_General_Introduction
>
>11. Free/Open Source Software: Education
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Education
>
>12. Free/Open Source Software: Government Policy
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Government_Policy
>
>13. Free/Open Source Software: Licensing
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Licensing
>
>14. Free/Open Source Software: Localization
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Localization
>
>15. Free/Open Source Software: Open Standards
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Open_Standar
>
>--
>Peace & Love,
>Erik
>
>Member, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
>
>DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise stated, all views or opinions expressed
>in this message are solely my own and do not represent an official
>position of the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.
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