This is a list of all resources that are relevant to our projects. Please share ideas here!
Larger collections (please note data size)
- Project Gutenberg 29,500 ebooks on a DVD ~7G or 650G. This is no longer relevant, thanks to Kiwix.
- Wikipedia - 40G
- Wikipedia images - ~1 TB
- Wiktionary ~2GB
- Why Democracy ~30G
- Why Poverty (coming out July 2013)
- Khan Academy Lite ~50G Downloading videos
- Academic Torrents - Various collections of datasets and publications for University level research etc.
- Open Street Maps of the region where the computer centers are located.
- saylor.org is based on Moodle, may we can fetch the contents somehow?
- Practical Action is huge a collection of information directly targeted at conditions relevant to everyday life in Malawi etc.
- Sikana.tv - free and very new training videos of great length and quality, especially life skills, health, DIY
- This list of 7 online sources for license-free art and photos
- UN Photo - over 800,000 images, rights are restricted, need to ask permission
- onebillion's onecourse
- LIBRARYSTACK Combining database, index, archive, publisher and distributor, Library Stack connects digital ephemera from the arts, design, theory and architecture fields to global library systems, so these publications can be discovered and accessed by a wider public.
Kiwix
We are giving Kiwix its own section because it has so many interesting distributions and makes them accessible in a very easy fashion.
- PhET 12 MB
- Project Gutenberg, English, 40 GB
- TED talks, all talks of 2014 are around 60 GB
- Wikibooks, 1.2 GB
- Wiktionary, 890 MB
- Wikivoyage, 800 MB
- Wikipedia for schools, 6,000 articles selected by SOS childrens villages. 2.4 GB
- Wikipedia, 40 GB, 4.6 mil articles, 3.6 mil media files
- OER4Schools, 2.2 GB
Smaller collections (data size not an issue)